Benthalbella
| Benthalbella Temporal range: | |
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| Benthalbella infans | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Aulopiformes |
| Family: | Scopelarchidae |
| Genus: | Benthalbella Zugmayer, 1911 |
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Species
[edit]There are currently 4 recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Benthalbella dentata (W. M. Chapman, 1939) (northern pearleye)
- Benthalbella elongata (Norman, 1937)
- Benthalbella infans Zugmayer, 1911 (Zugmayer's pearleye)
- Benthalbella linguidens (Mead & J. E. Böhlke, 1953) (longfin pearleye)
The only known fossil species is †Benthalbella praecessor Nazarkin & Carnevale, 2018 from the Middle Miocene of Sakhalin Island, Russia.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Davis, Matthew P. (2015). "Evolutionary Relationships of the Deep-Sea Pearleyes (Aulopiformes: Scopelarchidae) and a New Genus of Pearleye from Antarctic Waters". Copeia. 103 (1): 64–71. doi:10.1643/CI-14-139. S2CID 86731010.
- ↑ Nazarkin, Mikhail V.; Carnevale, Giorgio (2018-09-03). "A Miocene pearleye, Benthalbella praecessor, sp. nov. (Teleostei, Aulopiformes), from Sakhalin Island, Russia: the first known skeletal record for the family Scopelarchidae". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 38 (5) e1511992. doi:10.1080/02724634.2018.1511992. ISSN 0272-4634.
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