Valenciennellus

Constellationfishes
Temporal range: Early Eocene to Present
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Stomiiformes
Family: Sternoptychidae
Subfamily: Maurolicinae
Genus: Valenciennellus
Jordan & Evermann in Goode & Bean, 1896

Valenciennellus is an oceanic ray-finned fish genus which belongs in the family Sternoptychidae. They are commonly known as constellationfishes.

Its type species is V. tripunctulatus, and only one additional living species is placed here:[1]

Fossils of constellationfishes are known since the Early Eocene, more than 40 million years ago.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ FishBase [2009]
  2. ^ Sepkoski (2002)

References