Ijimaia
| Ijimaia Temporal range: Middle Miocene to Present
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| Deep-water ateleopid fish (I. plicatellus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Ateleopodiformes |
| Family: | Ateleopodidae |
| Genus: | Ijimaia Sauter, 1905 |
Ijimaia is a genus of jellynose fishes, one of four in the order Ateleopodiformes. The genus occurs in the fossil record since the Middle Miocene.[1]
Species
[edit]The currently recognized species in this genus are:[2]
- Ijimaia antillarum Howell-Rivero, 1935
- Ijimaia dofleini Sauter, 1905
- Ijimaia fowleri Howell-Rivero, 1935
- Ijimaia loppei Roule, 1922 (Loppe's tadpole fish)
- Ijimaia plicatellus (C. H. Gilbert, 1905) (deepwater ateleopodid)
References
[edit]- ^ BRzoBohatý, Rostislav, and Dirk Nolf. "Revision of the middle Badenian fish otoliths from the Carpathian Foredeep in Moravia (middle Miocene, Czech Republic)." Cybium 42.2 (2018): 143-167.[1]
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Ijimaia". FishBase. February 2012 version.
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