Aeoliscus strigatus (GUENTHER, 1861)

Taxonomy

Razorfish

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopteri Cope 1871
Order: Gasterosteiformes
Family: Centriscidae Rafinesque 1826
Genus: Aeoliscus
Species: Aeoliscus strigatus
Author Citation (GUENTHER, 1861)

Geological Time Scale

Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Neogene
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Pliocene
International Age: Zanclean - Piacenzian

Stratigraphy

"Formazione delle Argille Azzurre" Formation
Marne, argille e tripoli di Corpolò (TCO) Member

Provenance

Acquired by: Purchase/Trade

Location

Fiume Marecchia
Poggio Berni near Rimini
Emilia-Romagna
Italy

• aeoliscus
• italy
• marecchia
• pliocene
• rimini
• tff-oilshale-ch844

Comments

Recent Aeoliscus strigatus in head-down tail-up position as an adaption for hiding among sea urchin spines.

(Picture from Wikipedia, own work of Haplochromis)

Taxonomy from Fossilworks.org.

Description for the recent A. strigatus from GBIF.org: "Body elongate, strongly compressed, and blade-like. Head elongate; snout long, slender, and tubular; mouth small, toothless, located at tip of snout. Interorbital space striated, convex, without a longitudinal groove. Two short-based dorsal fins; first dorsal-fin spine hinged at its base, slightly movable, with a movable spinous ray at its end; all other spinous and soft portions of dorsal fins on ventral surface of body; caudal fin small, on ventral surface, nearly at right angle to body axis; pelvic fins small, with 4 short soft rays, originating at or behind midbody. Lateral line absent. Body enclosed in a flattened, transparent, bony casing with sharp ventral edge. Colour yellowish brown to pale green on back, silvery on sides; conspicuous black stripe running from the snout, through the eye, to the base of spinous dorsal fin."

Identified by oilshale.

References:

SORBINI, Lorenzo (1987) BIOGEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATOLOGY OF PLIOCENE AND MESSINIAN FOSSIL FISH OF EASTERN-CENTRAL ITALY. Boll. Mus. Civ. St. Nat. Verona", 14, pp. 1-85.