Sparus Linnaeus 1758 (perch-like fish)

Actinopteri - Perciformes - Sparidae

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824

Parent taxon: Sparidae according to T. Argyriou 2022

See also Arambourg 1927, Casier 1946, Casier 1958, Danil'chenko 1980, Gol'din et al. 2020, Sepkoski 2002 and Vicens and Rodríguez-Perea 2003

Sister taxa: Archosargus, Boops, Box, Calamus, Crenidens, Crommyodus, Dentex, Evynnis, Lagodon, Pagellinae, Pagrus, Paracalamus, Pshekharus, Rhythmias, Sparinae, Stenotomus

Subtaxa: Sparus brusinai Sparus caraibaeus Sparus cinctus Sparus compactus Sparus neogenus

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of France (1 collection), Spain (1)

• Pliocene of Angola (1), Italy (1), Portugal (1)

• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (2), Argentina (1), Austria (3), Costa Rica (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (4), Germany (1), Italy (3), Poland (1), Portugal (2), Romania (1), Spain (8)

• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (1)

• Eocene of Barbados (1), Belgium (1), the United Kingdom (6)

Total: 45 collections including 54 occurrences

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