*** Welcome to piglix ***

Lepidopus

Lepidopus
Temporal range: Oligocene - Quaternary
Drawing of Lepidopus caudatus from The Royal Natural History (1896).jpg
Drawing of Lepidopus caudatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Trichiuridae
Genus: Lepidopus
Goüan, 1770

Lepidopus is a genus of fishes belonging to the family Trichiuridae.

These fishes lived from the Oligocene to Quaternary (from 33.9 to 1.806 million years ago). Fossils have been found in Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Azerbaijan, the Czech Republic, Germany and Hungary.

Species within this genus include:


...
Wikipedia

...