Caruso Carnevale and Pietsch 2012 (anglerfish)

Osteichthyes - Lophiiformes - Lophiidae

Full reference: G. Carnevale and T. W. Pietsch. 2012. †Caruso, a new genus of anglerfishes from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy, with a comparative osteology and phylogeny of the teleost family Lophiidae. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(1):47-72

Parent taxon: Lophiidae according to G. Carnevale et al. 2014

See also Bannikov 2014 and Carnevale and Pietsch 2012

Sister taxa: Emmachaere, Eosladenia, Lophiodes, Lophiomus, Lophius, Sharfia, Sladenia

Subtaxa: Caruso brachysomus

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Monte Bolca, Pesciara (general) (Eocene of Italy)

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