Blabe
Appearance
Blabe Temporal range:
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Serranidae (?) |
Genus: | †Blabe White, 1936 |
Species: | †B. crawleyi
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Binomial name | |
†Blabe crawleyi White, 1936
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Blabe is an extinct genus of small, prehistoric ray-finned fish probably belonging to the family Serranidae that lived during the middle division of the Eocene epoch of Egypt.[1] It has a single known species, B. crawleyi, known from the Upper Lutetian limestone of the ancient Tura quarry.[2]
The generic name translates as "nuisance," referring to how the lack of scales on the type specimen frustrated its describer's attempts to understand the fish's exact systemic position.[3] The specific name commemorates one Cecil Crawley, who discovered the first specimen.[4]
See also
References
- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ White, Errol Ivor (1936). "V.— On certain Eocene percoid fishes". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 18 (103): 43–54. doi:10.1080/00222933608655173. ISSN 0374-5481.
- ^ "Geology of Egypt" Government Press, 1965
- ^ "Annals & magazine of natural history" Taylor and Francis, 1936