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Contemptor
Taxonomy
Contemptor was named by Calzoni et al. (2026). Its type is Contemptor mastinoi.
It was assigned to Gempylidae by Calzoni et al. (2026).
It was assigned to Gempylidae by Calzoni et al. (2026).
Species
C. mastinoi (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2026 | Contemptor Calzoni et al. p. 35 |
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| P. Calzoni et al. 2026 | A genus of the family Gempylidae characterized by the following combination of features: elongate, compressed and fusiform body; well-developed supraoccipital crest; upper jaw with 20 small conical teeth and two or three large fangs, one considerably larger than the others; lower jaw with four long fangs and five smaller conical teeth; palatine toothed; smooth ventral edge of the preopercle; moderately deep opercular notch; 34 vertebrae (15 + 19); epineurals attached to elongate and posteriorly curved ribs; five autogenous hypurals and parhypural; three epurals; caudal fin hypurostegic, forked, with 17 principal rays (9 + 8) plus four dorsal and six ventral procurrent rays; first dorsal fin with at least eight spines; second dorsal fin with one spine and 28 soft rays; anal fin with two spines and 24 rays; pectoral fin with 15 rays; pelvic fins with one spine and five rays; moderately large cycloid scales. |
Measurements
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Bambach et al. 2007, Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004, Carroll 1988 | |||||