Gadomus tejkali ( Brzobohatý & Schultz, 1978 )

Lin, Chien-Hsiang, Brzobohatý, Rostislav, Nolf, Dirk & Girone, Angela, 2017, Tortonian teleost otoliths from northern Italy: taxonomic synthesis and stratigraphic significance, European Journal of Taxonomy 322, pp. 1-44 : 21

Gadomus tejkali ( Brzobohatý & Schultz, 1978)

“genus Melanonidarum” vanheuckelomae Nolf & Steurbaut, 1983: pl. 4, figs 8–9.

The abundant occurrence of otoliths of G. tejkali at Mondovi allows a reconstruction of the otolith growth series of this species ( Fig. 3 E–L), in addition to the extensive growth series of the same species illustrated by Brzobohatý (1995: pl. 1, figs 1–11) from the Badenian (middle Miocene) of the Central Paratethys. The Tortonian and Badenian materials reveal that the specimens named “genus Melanonidarum” vanheuckelomae Nolf & Steurbaut, 1983 are, in fact, the juvenile specimens of G. tejkali , and therefore “g. M.” vanheuckelomae is synonymised here (see Nolf & Steurbaut 1983 for iconography).

Figures

Fig. 3. A–D, M–O. Recent otoliths of species of Xenomystax Gilbert, 1891. A–D. X. atrarius Gilbert, 1891 from Peru, fish total length (TL) 81 cm, 72 cm, 57 cm and 43 cm, respectively. M–N. X. congroides Smith & Kanazawa, 1989, from off Mississippi. O. X. bidentatus (Reid, 1940), from the Caribbean Sea, TL 48 cm. – E–L. Fossil otoliths of Gadomus tejkali (Brzobohatý & Schultz, 1978) (IRSNB P 9847–P 9854) growth series from Roddi (E) and Mondovi, Madonna della Neve (F–L). 1 = ventral view; 2 = inner view. Scale bars = 1 mm.