Valenciennellus

Constellationfishes Temporal range: Early Eocene to Present
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Stomiiformes
Family:	Sternoptychidae
Subfamily:	Maurolicinae
Genus:	Valenciennellus Jordan & Evermann in Goode & Bean, 1896

Valenciennellus is an oceanic ray-finned fish genus which belongs in the family Sternoptychidae. They are commonly known as constellationfishes.

Its type species is V. tripunctulatus, and only one additional living species is placed here:^[1]

• Valenciennellus carlsbergi Bruun, 1931
• Valenciennellus tripunctulatus (Esmark, 1871)

Fossils of constellationfishes are known since the Early Eocene, more than 40 million years ago.^[2]

Footnotes

1. ^ FishBase [2009]
2. ^ Sepkoski (2002)

References

• FishBase [2009]: Valenciennellus species. Retrieved 2009-OCT-02.
• Sepkoski, Jack (2002): [Valenciennellus]. In: A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletin of American Paleontology 364: 560. HTML database excerpt

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