| Blabe Temporal range: | |
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| Artist's reconstruction | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Serranidae (?) |
| Genus: | † Blabe White, 1936 |
| Species: | †B. crawleyi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Blabe crawleyi White, 1936 | |
Blabe is an extinct genus of small, prehistoric ray-finned fish probably belonging to the family Serranidae that lived during the middle division of the Eocene epoch of Egypt. [1] It has a single known species, B. crawleyi, known from the Upper Lutetian Mokattam Formation limestone of the ancient Tura quarry. [2]
The generic name translates as "nuisance," referring to how the lack of scales on the type specimen frustrated its describer's attempts to understand the fish's exact systemic position. [3] The specific name commemorates one Cecil Crawley, who discovered the first specimen. [4]
