Ctenopomichthys[1] is an extinct genus of marine scorpaeniform fish that inhabited the Paratethys Sea during the Miocene. It contains a single species, C. jemelka from the middle Miocene-aged Leitha Limestone of Saint Margarethen, Austria[2][3] (sometimes given as Sopron, Hungary).[4]

Ctenopomichthys
Temporal range: Langhian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Genus: Ctenopomichthys
Whitley, 1940
Species:
C. jemelka
Binomial name
Ctenopomichthys jemelka
(Heckel, 1856)
Synonyms

It was initially named without description in 1849 by Johann Jakob Heckel as Pygaeus jemelka, before being officially described as Ctenopoma jemelka in 1856.[3][5] However, Ctenopoma was found to be preoccupied by an unrelated genus of freshwater fish (Ctenopoma), and the species was thus reclassfied into two different genera (Ctenopomichthys Whitley, 1940 and Jemelkia White & Moy-Thomas, 1940), with Ctenopomichthys being published just a month before Jemelkia.[4][6][7]

It was formerly placed in the Scorpaenidae,[8] but later studies have found it to lack distinguishing features of this family.[4]

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References

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  1. ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-06-27.
  2. ^ Schmid, Hanns Peter; Harzhauser, Mathias; Kroh, Andreas; Coric, Stjepan; Rögl, Fred; Schultz, Ortwin (2000). "Hypoxic Events on a Middle Miocene Carbonate Platform of the Central Paratethys (Austria, Badenian, 14 Ma)". Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie A für Mineralogie und Petrographie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Anthropologie und Prähistorie. 102: 1–49. ISSN 0255-0091.
  3. ^ a b Geology, British Museum (Natural History) Department of; Woodward, Arthur Smith (1901). Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History): Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the suborders Isospondyli (in part), Ostariophysi, Apodes, Percesoces, Hemibranchii, Acanthopterygii, and Anacanthini. order of the Trustees.
  4. ^ a b c Schultz, Ortwin (1991). "Der Nachweis von Scorpaena s. s. (Pisces, Teleostei) im Badenien von St. Margarethen, Burgenland, Österreich: Revision von Scorpaena prior Heckel in Heckel & Kner, 1861". Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie A für Mineralogie und Petrographie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Anthropologie und Prähistorie. 95: 127–177. ISSN 0255-0091.
  5. ^ Klasse, Akademie der Wissenschaften (Wien) Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche (1856). Denkschriften (in German). Springer.
  6. ^ The Zoological Record: Being Records of Zoological Literature. J. Van Voorst. 1941.
  7. ^ Neave S.A. (1950). Nomenclator Zoologicus 1936-1945. Vol. 5C. p. 63.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  8. ^ Bundesanstalt (Austria), Geologische (1906). Jahrbuch: General Register (in German).