Glossanodon
Glossanodon is a genus of fishes in the family Argentinidae.
| Glossanodon Temporal range: Early Eocene-Recent ~ | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Argentiniformes |
| Family: | Argentinidae |
| Genus: | Glossanodon Guichenot 1867 |
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Extant species
There are currently 15 recognized extant species in this genus:[1][2]
- Glossanodon australis Kobyliansky, 1998 (Southern herring smelt)
- Glossanodon danieli Parin & Shcherbachev, 1982
- Glossanodon elongatus Kobyliansky, 1998
- Glossanodon kotakamaru Endo & Nashida, 2010 (Kotaka’s argentine)
- Glossanodon leioglossus (Valenciennes, 1848) (Small-toothed argentine)
- Glossanodon lineatus (Matsubara, 1943)
- Glossanodon melanomanus Kobyliansky, 1998
- Glossanodon microcephalus Endo & Nashida, 2012[2]
- Glossanodon mildredae Cohen & Atsaides, 1969
- Glossanodon nazca Parin & Shcherbachev, 1982
- Glossanodon polli Cohen, 1958
- Glossanodon pseudolineatus Kobyliansky, 1998 (Saddled herring smelt)
- Glossanodon pygmaeus Cohen, 1958 (Pygmy argentine)
- Glossanodon semifasciatus (Kishinouye, 1904) (Deep-sea smelt)
- Glossanodon struhsakeri Cohen, 1970 (Struhsaker's deep-sea smelt)
Fossil species
From the fossil record, two species are known, originally described as Proargentina inclinata (Danilt'chenko 1960) and P. nebulosa (Danilt'chenko 1962) from the Early Oligocene and Early Eocene Dabakhana Svita Formation of Georgia respectively.[3][4] Jerzmanska assigned Proargentina synonymous with Glossanodon in 1968.[5]
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Glossanodon in FishBase. February 2012 version.
- Endo, H. & Nashida, K. (2012): Glossanodon microcephalus, a New Argentine Fish from Japan and the South China Sea (Protacanthopterygii: Argentinidae). Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural Science, Ser. A., Supplement No. 6: 17–26.
- Proargentina inclinata at Fossilworks.org
- Proargentina nebulosa at Fossilworks.org
- Constantin, 1999, p.124
Bibliography
- Constantin, Paul. 1999. Oligocene-Lowermost Miocene fosisl fish fauna (Teleostei) from Romanian East Carpathians. Geo-Eco-Marina 4. 119–134. Accessed 2017-10-13.
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