Blabe
Temporal range:
Artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Family:
Serranidae
Subfamily:
incertae sedis
Genus:
Blabe
Species:
B. crawleyi
Binomial name
Blabe crawleyi
White 1936

Blabe crawleyi is a small, extinct prehistoric bony fish probably belonging to the family Serranidae that lived during the middle division of the Eocene epoch of Egypt.[1]

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.[2] The specific name commemorates one Cecil Crawley, who discovered the first specimen.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. ↑ "Geology of Egypt" Government Press, 1965
  3. ↑ "Annals & magazine of natural history" Taylor and Francis, 1936


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