Zenion

Extinct genus of fishes

Zenion

Temporal range: Pliocene to Present[1]

Zenion leptolepis
Zenion hololepis
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Zeiformes
Family:  | Zeniontidae
Genus:  | Zenion
D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1896

Zenion is a genus of zeniontid fish that is known from the fossil record, but is still extant.

## Species[edit]

There are currently four recognized recent species in this genus:[2]

* Zenion hololepis (Goode & T. H. Bean, 1896)
* Zenion japonicum Kamohara, 1934 (Japanese dory)
* Zenion leptolepis (Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924) (elongate dory)
* Zenion longipinnis Kotthaus, 1970

## References[edit]

1. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on July 23, 2011. Retrieved 2007-12-25.
2. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Zenion in FishBase. October 2012 version.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q643304
* Wikispecies: Zenion
* AFD: Zenion
* BOLD: 7301
* Fossilworks: 35844
* GBIF: 2415314
* iNaturalist: 92921
* IRMNG: 1047268
* ITIS: 166276
* NCBI: 181442
* NZOR: 1b9a0b55-2446-471f-b6d1-c238ec375128
* WoRMS: 126245

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