Galaxias papilionis

Galaxias papilionis is an extinct species of bony fish in the genus Galaxias. It existed in what is now New Zealand in the early Miocene epoch. It was described by Werner Schwarzhans, R. Paul Scofield, Alan J. D. Tennyson, Jennifer P. Worthy and Trevor H. Worthy in 2012.[1]

Galaxias papilionis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Galaxiiformes
Family: Galaxiidae
Genus: Galaxias
Species:
G. papilionis
Binomial name
Galaxias papilionis
Scofield et al., 2012

References

  1. Werner Schwarzhans; R. Paul Scofield; Alan J. D. Tennyson; Jennifer P. Worthy; Trevor H. Worthy (2012). "Fish remains, mostly otoliths, from the non-marine early Miocene of Otago, New Zealand". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. in press. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0127.


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