Serranidae, Swainson, 1839

Schwarzhans, Werner, Klots, Oleksandr, Ryabokon, Tamara & Kovalchuk, Oleksandr, 2022, A rare window into a back-reef fish community from the middle Miocene (late Badenian) Medobory Hills barrier reef in western Ukraine, reconstructed mostly by means of otoliths, Swiss Journal of Palaeontology (18) 141 (1), pp. 1-35 : 21

Serranidae ? indet.

Figure 9b, c

Material 5 otoliths: 2 specimens, Kozatskyi Yar, NMNHU-P PI 2579 ; 3 specimens, Mlyntsi, NMNHU-P PI 2580 .

Discussion Four small, juvenile, partly eroded specimens

( Fig. 9c ) and a single large but incomplete and fragmented specimen ( Fig. 9b ) are tentatively placed in the family Serranidae but cannot be further identified. Te otoliths are characterized by a relatively mild bend in the horizontal direction, distinct mid- and postdorsal angles, and a relatively short and only slightly flexed cauda.

Figures

Fig. 9 Otoliths of Haemulidae, Serranidae, Sparidae, Leiognathidae and Caproidae:a (reversed)—Brachydeuterus speronatus (Bassoli,1906), Kozatskyi Yar, NMNHU-P PI 2549. b, c Serranidae indet., b (broken and repaired), c (reversed), Kozatskyi Yar,NMNHU-P PI 2579. d, e Pshekharus yesinorum Bannikov & Kotlyar, 2015, Mlyntsi, NMNHU-P PI 2578. f (reversed)—Leiognathidae indet., Shydlivshchyna, NMB P1214. g Perciformes indet., Shydlivshchyna,NMB P1221. h (reversed) – Capros aper (Linnaeus,1758), Mlyntsi, NMB P1206