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
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Binomial name | |
†Blabe crawleyi White, 1936
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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 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]