Benthalbella

Benthalbella Temporal range: Middle Miocene to present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Benthalbella infans
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Aulopiformes
Family:	Scopelarchidae
Genus:	Benthalbella Zugmayer, 1911
Species
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Benthalbella is a genus of pearleyes.

Species

There are currently 4 recognized species in this genus: ^[1]

• Benthalbella dentata (W. M. Chapman, 1939) (northern pearleye)
• Benthalbella elongata (Norman, 1937)
• Benthalbella infans Zugmayer, 1911 (Zugmayer's pearleye)
• Benthalbella linguidens (Mead & J. E. Böhlke, 1953) (longfin pearleye)

The only known fossil species is Benthalbella praecessor Nazarkin & Carnevale, 2018 from the Middle Miocene of Sakhalin Island, Russia. ^[2]

References

1. Davis, Matthew P. (2015). "Evolutionary Relationships of the Deep-Sea Pearleyes (Aulopiformes: Scopelarchidae) and a New Genus of Pearleye from Antarctic Waters". Copeia. 103 (1): 64–71. doi: 10.1643/CI-14-139 . S2CID   86731010.
2. Nazarkin, Mikhail V.; Carnevale, Giorgio (2018-09-03). "A Miocene pearleye, Benthalbella praecessor, sp. nov. (Teleostei, Aulopiformes), from Sakhalin Island, Russia: the first known skeletal record for the family Scopelarchidae". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 38 (5): e1511992. doi:10.1080/02724634.2018.1511992. ISSN   0272-4634.