Palimphemus Kner, 1862

Carnevale, Giorgio, Harzhauser, Mathias & Schultz, Ortwin, 2012, The Miocene gadid fish Palimphemus anceps Kner, 1862: a reappraisal, Geodiversitas 34 (3), pp. 625-643 : 628

Genus Palimphemus Kner, 1862

DIAGNOSIS. — Gadine fish with elongate and laterally compressed body; head length about one third of SL; gape of the mouth wide, extending posteriorly up the half of the orbit; anal-fin insertion well behind the first dorsal-fin origin; preanal distance about 46% SL, exceeding the base length of the first anal fin; length of the first anal-fin base reduced, measuring slightly less than one fourth of SL; 45-46 (18+ 27/28) vertebrae; third dorsal fin with 17-21 rays; first anal fin with 18-21 rays; second anal fin with 18-19 rays; caudal fin with 41-43 rays; pectoral fin with 15-18 rays; large massive neurocranium, its maximum width measured in the postorbital sector contained less than two times in its length; outer margins of the frontals thickened and ornamented by longitudinal pits and ridges along the ventral surface; hyomandibula with a relatively large ventrally directed preopercular process; opercle with a thick horizontal rib arising from the articular condyle.

REFERRED SPECIES. — Type species only.