Ophichthus brevior, (Koken, 1888)

Lin, Chien-Hsiang & Nolf, Dirk, 2022, Middle and late Eocene fish otoliths from the eastern and southern USA, European Journal of Taxonomy 814, pp. 1-122 : 28

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2022.814.1745

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:74226488-DE8B-4A64-B1D4-A24C15AE79F6

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6492702

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/897AA073-FFB5-396D-E953-C33AFCBF5D75

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Felipe

scientific name

Ophichthus brevior
status

 

“ Ophichthus ” brevior ( Koken, 1888)

Fig. 38A View Fig

Otolithus (Congeris) brevior Koken, 1888: 293 , pl. 18 fig. 7.

Conger View in CoL brevior – Frizzell & Lamber 1962: 90, figs 4a–b, 10 a–d.

“genus Ophichthyidarum ” brevior – Nolf 1985: 115; 2003: 3, pl. 1 fig. 1.

“ Ophichthida ” brevior – Nolf 2013: 34, pl. 19.

Remarks

This species is only known from its holotype, a small left otolith, which was tentatively attributed to an ophichthid by Nolf (1985). The otolith mentioned as “genus Congridarum aff. brevior by Müller (1999: 82, fig. 21/7) shows a different pattern from ophichthid otoliths and probably belongs to a congrid.

Stratigraphic and geographic distribution

Bartonian: Moodys Branch Formation, Mississippi.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Anguilliformes

Family

Ophichthidae

Genus

Ophichthus

Loc

Ophichthus brevior

Lin, Chien-Hsiang & Nolf, Dirk 2022
2022
Loc

Conger

Frizzell D. L. & Lamber C. K. 1962: 90
1962
Loc

Otolithus (Congeris) brevior

Koken E. 1888: 293
1888
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