Osmerus larteti Sauvage 1870 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Salmoniformes - Salmonidae

Full reference: H. E. Sauvage. 1870. Synopsis des poissons tertiaires de Licata. Anales des Sciences Naturalles, Zoologie et Paleontologie 14:1-26

Belongs to Osmerus according to H. E. Sauvage 1873

See also Arambourg 1925, Bedini et al. 1986, Gregorova 2004 and Sauvage 1870

Sister taxa: Osmerus albyi, Osmerus propterygius, Osmerus stilpnos

Type specimen: Its type locality is Licata, which is in a Messinian marine horizon in Italy

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Licata

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