Ctenopomichthys Explained

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]

It was initially named without description in 1849 by Johann Jakob Heckel as Pygaeus jemelka, before being officially described as Ctenopoma jemelka in 1856.^[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.^{[6] [7]}

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

See also

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish

Notes and References

1. Web site: PBDB Taxon . 2024-06-27 . paleobiodb.org.
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 . 0255-0091.
3. Book: Geology, British Museum (Natural History) Department of . 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 . Woodward . Arthur Smith . 1901 . order of the Trustees . en.
4. 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 . 0255-0091.
5. Book: Klasse, Akademie der Wissenschaften (Wien) Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche . Denkschriften . 1856 . Springer . de.
6. Book: The Zoological Record: Being Records of Zoological Literature . 1941 . J. Van Voorst . en.
7. Book: Neave S.A. . Nomenclator Zoologicus 1936-1945 . 1950 . 1950 . 5C . 63.
8. Book: Bundesanstalt (Austria), Geologische . Jahrbuch: General Register . 1906 . de.