Blabe

Blabe
Temporal range: Middle Eocene[1]
Artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclass: Osteichthyes
Family: Serranidae
Subfamily: incertae sedis
Genus: Blabe
Species: B. crawleyi
Binomial name
Blabe crawleyi
White 1936

Blabe crawleyi is a small, extinct prehistoric bony fish probably belonging to the family Serranidae that lived during the middle division of the Eocene epoch of Egypt.[1]

The generic name translates as "nuisance," referring to how the lack of scales on the type specimen frustrated its describer's attempts to understand the fish's exact systemic position.[2] The specific name commemorates one Cecil Crawley, who discovered the first specimen.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. "Geology of Egypt" Government Press, 1965
  3. "Annals & magazine of natural history" Taylor and Francis, 1936
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