Gardinerpiscis

Gardinerpiscis
Temporal range: Kungurian
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Gardinerpiscis

Romano & Kogan, 2015
Species:
G. akkolkensis
Binomial name
Gardinerpiscis akkolkensis
(Kazantseva-Selezneva, 1981)
Type species
Gardineria akkolkensis
Kazantseva-Selezneva, 1981
Synonyms

Gardineria Kazantseva-Selezneva, 1981 (non Gardineria Vaughan, 1907)

Gardinerpiscis is an extinct genus of prehistoric actinopterygian fish that lived during the Kungurian age of the early Permian epoch in what is now Kazakhstan. It was originally named "Gardineria" by Kazantseva-Selezneva (1981).[1] Because this genus name was already given to an extant scleractinian coral (Gardineria Vaughan, 1907),[2] the new name Gardinerpiscis was erected for the Permian fish.[3] The genus includes a single species (monotypy): Gardinerpiscis akkolkensis.

Gardinerpiscis is named after British palaeontologist and zoologist Brian G. Gardiner (1932 - 2021). The word part piscis is Latin for fish.

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  1. ^ Kazantseva-Selezneva, Al'vina Aleksandrovna (1981). "Late Paleozoic Palaeonisci of eastern Kazakhstan". Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR. 180: 1–140.
  2. ^ Vaughan, Thomas Wayland (1907). "Recent Madreporaria of the Hawaiian Islands and Laysan". Bulletin of the United States National Museum (59): 1–427. doi:10.5479/si.03629236.59.i.
  3. ^ Romano, Carlo; Kogan, Ilja (2015). "Gardinerpiscis nom. nov., a replacement name for the preoccupied genus name Gardineria Kazantseva-Selezneva, 1981 (Actinopterygii, Osteichthyes)" (PDF). Paleontological Journal. 49 (6): 677–678. doi:10.1134/S0031030115060118. S2CID 86206512.