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Menidia
Temporal range: Pliocene to Present[1]Menidia menidia Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Atheriniformes Family: Atherinopsidae Genus: Menidia Species Menidia beryllina
Menidia clarkhubbsi
Menidia colei
Menidia conchorum
Menidia extensa
Menidia menidia
Menidia peninsulaeMenidia is a genus of silverside fish (Atherinopsidae) found all around the shores of the Gulf of Maine from Nova Scotia to Cape Cod. The species M. clarkhubbsi, an all-female species, reproduces asexually[2]
References
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: 560. http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class. Retrieved 2007-12-25.
- ^ Echelle and Mosier 1982
- "Menidia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=165992.
- Echelle, Anthony A. and Doyle T. Mosier, "Menidia clarkhubbsi, n. sp. (Pisces: Atherinidae), an All-Female Species." Copeia, Vol. 1982, No. 3 (Aug. 10, 1982), pp. 533–540
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