Paranursallia, Taverne & Layeb & Layeb-Tounsi & Gaudant, 2015
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.5252/g2015n2a3 |
publication LSID |
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:ADA93E56-4694-4ED6-A95C-99675FE54FEF |
DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4535431 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C49AED7E-3471-4FCE-906D-1FFDFEF82D27 |
taxon LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:act:C49AED7E-3471-4FCE-906D-1FFDFEF82D27 |
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
scientific name |
Paranursallia |
status |
gen. nov. |
Genus Paranursallia n. gen.
TYPE SPECIES. — Paranursallia spinosa n. sp. (herein designated). ETYMOLOGY. — From the Greek para, near, close to, and the generic name Nursallia .
DIAGNOSIS. — Nursalliinae with a large head, a wide orbit and a very short snout. Paired broad prefrontals present. Short mesethmoid. Parasphenoid short and straight. Mandible triangular and as deep as long. Wide dermosphenotic. A large and deep “V”-shaped notch at the ventral junction between the skull and the cleithrum. First neural arches fused in a large synarcual articulated on the rear of the skull. First 7 or 8 neural spines autogenous. 27 to 30 vertebral segments before the epichordal series. Neural and haemal arches interlocked by two pre- and two postzygapophyses. Dorsal and anal fin with about 70 pterygiophores each.
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