Biology:Aphia djafarovae

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Short description: Species of fish (fossil)

Aphia djafarovae
Temporal range: Serravallian
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Aphia
Species:
A. djafarovae
Binomial name
Aphia djafarovae
Bratishko et. al., 2015

Aphia djafarovae is an extinct species of Aphia that lived during the Serravallian stage of the Miocene epoch.

Distribution

Otolith fossils of A. djafarovae are known from the Mangyshlak Peninsula of western Kazakhstan.[1]

References

  1. Bratishko, Andriy; Schwarzhans, Werner; Reichenbacher, Bettina; Vernyhorova, Yuliia; Ćorić, Stjepan (8 August 2015). "Fish otoliths from the Konkian (Miocene, early Serravallian) of Mangyshlak (Kazakhstan): testimony to an early endemic evolution in the Eastern Paratethys" (in en). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 89 (4): 839–889. doi:10.1007/s12542-015-0274-4. ISSN 0031-0220. Bibcode2015PalZ...89..839B. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-015-0274-4. Retrieved 26 April 2025. 

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