Taxon Profile: Proeleginops grandeastmanorum

Taxonomy details

Context

Taxon Id
118049
Authority
Unknown or not entered.
Naming Status
Currently accepted name
Status
Fossil
Found in the Antarctica/subantarctic or Southern Ocean
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Taxon has been resolved to the rank Species.

Hierarchy

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Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Osteichthyes
Order
Perciformes
Family
Not assigned to a family
Genus
Proeleginops

Profile

Source of taxon data
IRMNG V2
Latest Taxonomic scrutiny
Dave Watts on 20-Apr-2009
Reference Site/Paper in which the taxon name was checked
Balushkin, A.V. (1995) Proeleginops grandeastmanorum gen. et sp. nov. (Perciformes, Notothenioidei, Eleginopsidae) from the Late Eocene of Seymour Island (Antarctica) is a fossil notothenioid, not a gadiform. Journal of ichthyology 34 10-23. Source is Nisc

Species Profile:

Taxonomy and Nomenclature

Type Locality
The actual location of the first recorded specimen
Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula

Reference: - Balushkin, A.V. (1995) Proeleginops grandeastmanorum gen. et sp. nov. (Perciformes, Notothenioidei, Eleginopsidae) from the Late Eocene of Seymour Island (Antarctica) is a fossil notothenioid, not a gadiform. Journal of ichthyology 34 10-23. Source is Nisc