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Lepidopus

Poole, Karen E.

EntityQ2246991· pop 14· linked from 5 articles

Lepidopus is a genus of cutlassfishes.

Species

Common Scaly-foot

KINGDOM

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassTeleostei
  4. OrderScombriformes
  5. FamilyTrichiuridae
Habitatmarine
Observations948
Observations recorded3,012,139,120

Vissen Lepidopus is een geslacht van straalvinnige vissen uit de familie van haarstaarten (Trichiuridae).[1] Soorten Lepidopus altifrons Parin & Collette, 1993 Lepidopus calcar Parin & Mikhailin, 1982 Lepidopus caudatus (Euphrasen, 1788) (Kousebandvis) Lepidopus dubius Parin & Mikhailin, 1981 Lepidopus fitchi Rosenblatt & Wilson, 1987 Lepidopus manis Rosenblatt & Wilson, 1987 Bronnen, noten en/of referenties ↑ (en) Lepidopus. FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. 10 2011 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2011.

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
70
With media
6
Family
Trichiuridae
Collections
CM, UWFC, YPM, SIO, FMNH
Recorded in
Switzerland, United States, Japan

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Trichiuridae
Image
Drawing of Lepidopus caudatus from The Royal Natural History (1896).jpg
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Commons category
Lepidopus
taxon name
Lepidopus
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Lepidopus
start time
33900000-0
end time
1806000-00
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Encyclopedic overview

4 sections
Contents
  • Fossil record
  • Species
  • Bibliography
  • References

Lepidopus is a genus of cutlassfishes.

==Fossil record== These fishes lived from the Oligocene to Quaternary (from 33.9 to 1.806 million years ago). Fossils have been found in Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Azerbaijan, the Czech Republic, Germany and Hungary.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lepidopus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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