| Ctenopomichthys Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Genus: | † Ctenopomichthys Whitley, 1940 |
| Species: | †C. jemelka |
| Binomial name | |
| †Ctenopomichthys jemelka (Heckel, 1856) | |
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Ctenopomichthys [1] is an extinct genus of marine scorpaeniform fish that inhabited the Paratethys Sea during the Miocene. It contains a single species, C. jemelka from the middle Miocene-aged Leitha Limestone of Saint Margarethen, Austria [2] [3] (sometimes given as Sopron, Hungary). [4]
It was initially named without description in 1849 by Johann Jakob Heckel as Pygaeus jemelka, before being officially described as Ctenopoma jemelka in 1856. [3] [5] However, Ctenopoma was found to be preoccupied by an unrelated genus of freshwater fish ( Ctenopoma ), and the species was thus reclassfied into two different genera (Ctenopomichthys Whitley, 1940 and Jemelkia White & Moy-Thomas, 1940), with Ctenopomichthys being published just a month before Jemelkia. [4] [6] [7]
It was formerly placed in the Scorpaenidae, [8] but later studies have found it to lack distinguishing features of this family. [4]
