Aeoliscus

Aeoliscus Temporal range: Early Oligocene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Razorfish (A. strigatus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Syngnathiformes
Family:	Centriscidae
Subfamily:	Centriscinae
Genus:	Aeoliscus D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1902 [1]
Type species
Amphisile strigata Günther, 1861

Aeoliscus is a genus of shrimpfishes found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Species

There are currently two recognized extant species of Aeoliscus in this genus: ^[2]

• Aeoliscus punctulatus (Bianconi, 1854) (speckled shrimpfish)
• Aeoliscus strigatus (Günther, 1861) (razorfish)

The following fossil species are also known: ^[3]

• † Aeoliscus apscheronicus (Lednev, 1914) - Early Miocene of North Caucasus, Russia & Azerbaijan; Middle Miocene of Austria ^[3]
• † Aeoliscus distinctus Parin & Micklich, 1996 - Early Oligocene of Germany
• † Aeoliscus heinrichi (Heckel, 1850) - Early Oligocene of France, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Romania, Ukraine & Azerbaijan
• † Aeoliscus kabristanicus Menner, 1950 - Late Oligocene of Azerbaijan
• † Aeoliscus longispinus (Rozhdestvensky, 1949) - Late Oligocene of Poland & Ukraine
• † Aeoliscus teleajensis (Jonet, 1949) - Early Oligocene of Romania & Poland

References

1. Jordan, David Starr; Starks, Edwin Chapin (1902). "A Review of the Hemibranchiate Fishes of Japan". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 26 (1308): 71–72.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Aeoliscus". FishBase . October 2012 version.
3. Schultz, Ortwin (2005). "Rasiermesserfische (Aeoliscus: Centriscidae, Osteichthyes) aus dem Badenium (Mittel-Miozän) von St. Margarethen im Burgenland, Österreich (Zentrale Paratethys)". Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie A für Mineralogie und Petrographie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Anthropologie und Prähistorie. 107: 71–85. ISSN   0255-0091.