Odondebuenia agiadiae Schwarzhans et al., 2020a

Schwarzhans, Werner, Klots, Oleksandr, Ryabokon, Tamara & Kovalchuk, Oleksandr, 2022, A rare window into a back-reef fish community from the middle Miocene (late Badenian) Medobory Hills barrier reef in western Ukraine, reconstructed mostly by means of otoliths, Swiss Journal of Palaeontology (18) 141 (1), pp. 1-35 : 11

Odondebuenia agiadiae Schwarzhans et al., 2020a , 2020b

Figure 5a–d

2020a Odondebuenia agiadiae —Schwarzhans, Brzobohatý & Radwańska: pl. 6, figs. 12–22.

Material 7 otoliths: 2 specimens, Mlyntsi, NMNHU-P PI 2570; 5 specimens, Kozatskyi Yar, NMNHU-P PI 2569 and NMB 1219.

Discussion Otoliths of O. agiadiae are characterized by the preventral projection being stronger than the postdorsal one, a depressed predorsal region, and a small, rather narrow sulcus with reduced sole shape and without a subcaudal iugum. Outline and proportions were found to vary considerably in the original description by Schwarzhans et. al. (2020a); this variability is confirmed here. Odondebuenia agiadiae is apparently a species that preferred near-reef environments, such as Lakšárská Nová Ves (late Badenian of Slovakia) or Węglinek (early Badenian of Poland), and is now also confirmed in the back-reef environment of the Medobory Reef.

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Fig. 5 Otoliths of Odondebuenia, Parenypnias and Bathygobius?: a–d Odondebuenia agiadiae Schwarzhans et al., 2020a, 2020b, a (reversed) Kozatskyi Yar,NMB P1219, b (reversed), d Kozatskyi Yar, NMNHU-P PI 2569, c (reversed) Mlyntsi, NMNHU-P PI 2570.e–h Parenypnias inauditus n. gen. et n. sp., f holotype, Kozatskyi Yar,NMNHU-P PI 2550,e, g (reversed) Shydlivshchyna, NMB P1207, h Žižkov 1 well (1616–1622 m), DGS MU-0395. i Parenypnias kiselevi n. gen. et n. sp., holotype, Mlyntsi,NMNHU-P PI 2574. j Enypnias seminudus (GÜnther, 1861), Recent,USNM 407784,13° 22′ N 87° 52′ W.k Gobiosoma bosc (Lacépède,1800), Recent (reversed), LACM coll. Fitch, off Rappahannock. l Bathygobius? sp. (reversed), Kozatskyi Yar, NMNHU-P PI 2548