Acanthopleurus Explained

Acanthopleurus is an extinct genus of marine triplespine that lived in the seas over what is now Europe during the early Oligocene epoch.^{[1] [2] [3]}

It contains three species:^[4]

• †A. collettei Tyler, 1980 - Oligocene of Glarus, Switzerland
• †A. serratus Agassiz, 1844 - Oligocene of Glarus, Switzerland (type species)
• †A. trispinosus Ciobanu, 1977 - Oligocene of Romania

The former species A. brevis Rath, 1859 is now classified in its own genus, Cryptobalistes.

See also

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish

Notes and References

1. Sepkoski . Jack . A compendium of fossil marine animal genera . Bulletins of American Paleontology . 364 . 560 . 2002 . 2009-02-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class . 2011-07-23 .
2. Santini . Francesco . Tyler . James C. . 2002-07-24 . Phylogeny and biogeography of the extant species of triplespine fishes (Triacanthidae, Tetraodontiformes) . Zoologica Scripta . 31 . 4 . 321–330 . 10.1046/j.1463-6409.2002.00097.x . 0300-3256.
3. SANTINI . FRANCESCO . TYLER . JAMES C. . 2003 . A phylogeny of the families of fossil and extant tetraodontiform fishes (Acanthomorpha, Tetraodontiformes), Upper Cretaceous to Recent . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 139 . 4 . 565–617 . 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2003.00088.x . 1096-3642.
4. Tyler . James C. . Winterbottom . Richard . 1999-12-01 . A review of the morphology and relationships of the Oligocene spikefish genera Acanthopleurus Agassiz 1844 and Cryptobalistes Tyler 1968 (Tetraodontiformes: Triacanthidae) . Paläontologische Zeitschrift . en . 73 . 3 . 351–367 . 10.1007/BF02988046 .