Eocene handfishes from Monte Bolca, with description of a new genus and species, and a phylogeny of the family Brachionichthyidae (Teleostei: Lophiiformes)

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 160, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 621-647

  Carnevale, Giorgio ^a   Pietsch, Theodore W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Histiocephalus; Antennarioidei; Biogeography; Northern Italy; Osteology; Tethys

Indexed keywords

ANTENNARIIDAE; ANTENNARIOIDEI; BRACHIONICHTHYIDAE; BRACHIONICHTHYS; LOPHICHTHYIDAE; LOPHIIFORMES; PISCES; TELEOSTEI; TETRABRACHIIDAE;

EID: 78649485541     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00623.x     Document Type: Article

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