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Zenopsis

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Description

Zenopsis is a genus of dories, a group of marine fish. There are four extant species, but the genus is also known from fossils dating back to the Oligocene epoch. They largely resemble the better-known John dory, and are typically found in relatively deep water, below normal scuba diving depth.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenopsis, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2415245	https://www.gbif.org/species/2415245
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	35845	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35845

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopterygii : Zeiformes : Zeidae : Zenopsis

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Zeiformes : Zeidae : Zenopsis

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
superclass	Actinopterygii
class	Actinopteri
subclass	Neopterygii
-	Teleosteomorpha	Arratia et al. 2004
-	Teleostei
-	Osteoglossocephalai
-	Clupeocephala	Patterson and Rosen 1977
-	Euteleosteomorpha
-	Neoteleostei	Rosen 1973
-	Eurypterygia
-	Ctenosquamata
-	Acanthomorphata
-	Paracanthomorphacea
-	Zeiogadaria
-	Zeariae
order	Zeiformes	Regan 1909
family	Zeidae
genus	Zenopsis	Gill 1862

Scientific Name

Zenopsis Gill, 1862

Name Published In

Gill, T. N. 1862. On the limits and arrangement of the family of scombroids. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 14: 124-127.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Zenopsis	genus	belongs to Zeidae	stated without evidence	Danil'chenko, 1960
Zenopsis	genus	belongs to Zeiformes	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 28.4 Ma
Oligocene

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Zeiformes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Zeiformes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Common Name(s)

カガミダイ

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenopsis

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Zenopsis clarus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Zenopsis conchifer species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zenopsis nebulosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zenopsis oblonga species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zenopsis stabilispinosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Parazenopsis Cligny, 1909	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Actinopterygii : Zeiformes : Zeidae : *Parazenopsis*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1862	Zenopsis Gill
1960	Zenopsis Danil'chenko p. 92
1968	Zenopsis Jerzmanska p. 441
2002	Zenopsis Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Danil'chenko P. G. (1960) Bony fishes of the Maikop deposits of the Caucasus, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 78, 1-247

Jerzmanska A. (1968) Ichtyofaune des couches a ménilite (flysch des Karpathes), Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 13 3, 379-488

Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Eschmeyer online (Jun 2012) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1862 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Eschmeyer, William N., 1990: null. Genera of Recent Fishes. iii + 697. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Tyler, James C., Bruce O'Toole, and Richard Winterbottom, 2003: Phylogeny of the Genera and Families of Zeiform Fishes, with Comments on Their Relationships with Tetraodontiforms and Caproids. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, no. 618. iv + 110. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

FishBase - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2019). Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2019. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. - via World Register of Marine Species

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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