Osteichthyes - Lutjaniformes - Sciaenidae
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: Sciaenidae according to D. J. Cicimurri et al. 2025
See also Danil'chenko 1980, Ebersole et al. 2019, Sepkoski 2002, Steurbaut 1984 and Szabo et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Aplodinotus, Argyrosomus, Carnevalella, Carnevalellinae, Caucasisciaena, Ekokenia, Fisherichthys, Ioscion, Pogonias, Sciaenops, Stelliferinae
Subtaxa: Sciaena amplus Sciaena bathytatos Sciaena holsatica Sciaena impropria Sciaena irregularis Sciaena kirchbergensis Sciaena knyrkoi Sciaena meridionalis Sciaena obtusus Sciaena pecchioli Sciaena pimenovae Sciaena radians Sciaena simplex Sciaena umbra
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of Czechia (1 collection), Denmark (1), Germany (2), Hungary (1), Romania (1), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), Hungary (1), United States (2: Louisiana, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Nigeria (2), United States (2: Louisiana)
Total: 15 collections including 18 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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