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Mendocinichthys
Taxonomy
Mendocinichthys was named by Whitley (1953). Its type is Mendocinia brevis. It was considered monophyletic by López-Arbarello and Zavattieri (2008).
It was assigned to Pseudobeaconiidae by López-Arbarello and Zavattieri (2008); and to Perleidiformes by López-Arbarello et al. (2010).
It was assigned to Pseudobeaconiidae by López-Arbarello and Zavattieri (2008); and to Perleidiformes by López-Arbarello et al. (2010).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1953 | Mendocinichthys Whitley |
| 2008 | Mendocinichthys López-Arbarello and Zavattieri p. 1041 figs. Text-figure 18 |
| 2010 | Mendocinichthys López-Arbarello et al. |
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. López-Arbarello and A. M. Zavattieri 2008 | As for type and only species: A small actinopterygian of c. 30 mm SL and maximum body depth c. 0.5 SL; dorsal and anal fins of similar size; dorsal fin with five basal fulcra and 12 lepidotrichia, the basal segments of which are very high, about six times higher than the distal segments; caudal fin with 25 lepidotrichia, eight epaxial fin rays, three dorsal and three ventral basal fulcra; basal segments of epaxial caudal fin rays relatively and absolutely longer than the
equivalent elements in the hypaxial rays; dorsal ridge with six spiniform scales; four large median scutes on dorsal midline from end of dorsal to caudal fin. |
Measurements
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| Reference: Carroll 1988 | |||||