Batrachoididae

Agiadi, Konstantina, Koskeridou, Efterpi & Thivaiou, Danae, 2021, At the crossroads: early Miocene marine fishes of the proto-Mediterranean Sea, Fossil Record 24 (2), pp. 233-246 : 240

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5194/fr-24-233-2021

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Batrachoididae
status

 

Family Batrachoididae View in CoL View at ENA

“Batrachoidida ” vigneauxi ( Steurbaut, 1984)

Fig. 4F

1984 “genus Apogoninarum ” vigneauxi – Steurbaut, pl. 20, figs. 14–19

2013 “Batrachoidida ” vigneauxi ( Steurbaut, 1984) – Nolf, pl. 144.

Material

Two otoliths from level 11.

Distribution

Aquitanian of SW France ( Steurbaut, 1984) and the MHB.

Remarks

These otoliths are elongate with a higher anterior than posterior part and a prominent anterodorsal high. The sulcus is divided into a large, oval ostium that almost reaches the anterior rim, and a smaller, also oval-shaped cauda that is situated slightly dorsally. The specimens examined here resemble very much those figured by Steurbaut (1984) from the Oligocene–lower Miocene of France and reassigned by Nolf (2013) to Batrachoididae .

Nolf, D.: The diversity of fish otoliths, past and present, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, 222 pp., pl. 359, 2013.

Steurbaut, E.: Les otolithes de TOlOostOens de l'Oligo-MiocLne d'Aquitaine (Sud-Ouest de la France), Palaeontogr. Abt. A, 186, 1 - 162, 1984.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Batrachoidiformes

Family

Batrachoididae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Perciformes

Family

Apogonidae

Genus

Apogon