Acanthonemus
Sign in to saveAcanthonemus (from , 'spine' and 'to distribute' or 'covered') is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived from the early Eocene. It contains a single species, A. subaureus (synonyms: A. bertrandi Agassiz, 1834, A. filamentosus Agassiz, 1834), known from the famous Monte Bolca site in Italy. It is the only genus in the extinct family Acanthonemidae.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Scombridae
- Image
- Scombridae - Acanthonemus filamentosus.JPG
Show 5 more facts
- taxon name
- Acanthonemus
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Acanthonemus
- start time
- 55800000-0
- end time
- 40400000-0
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- See also
- References
Acanthonemus (from , 'spine' and 'to distribute' or 'covered') is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived from the early Eocene. It contains a single species, A. subaureus (synonyms: A. bertrandi Agassiz, 1834, A. filamentosus Agassiz, 1834), known from the famous Monte Bolca site in Italy. It is the only genus in the extinct family Acanthonemidae.
== See also == left|thumb|183x183px|Illustration from Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle. Atlas (1849) Prehistoric fish List of prehistoric bony fish
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Acanthonemus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.