Biology:Mataichthys
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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes
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| Order: | Perciformes
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| Suborder: | Gobioidei
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| Genus: | Mataichthys Schwarzhans et al., 2012
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Mataichthys is an extinct genus of sleeper gobies which lived in what is now New Zealand in the early Miocene period. It was described by Werner Schwarzhans, R. Paul Scofield, Alan J. D. Tennyson, Jennifer P. Worthy and Trevor H. Worthy in 2012, and contains the species Mataichthys bictenatus, Mataichthys procerus, Mataichthys rhinoceros, and Mataichthys taurinus.[1]
References
- ↑ Werner Schwarzhans; R. Paul Scofield; Alan J. D. Tennyson; Jennifer P. Worthy; Trevor H. Worthy (2012). "Fish remains, mostly otoliths, from the non-marine early Miocene of Otago, New Zealand". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (2): 319–350. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0127. http://app.pan.pl/article/item/app20100127.html.
Wikidata ☰ Q6785991 entry
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