Aphia djafarovae
| Aphia djafarovae Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | Aphia |
| Species: | †A. djafarovae
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| Binomial name | |
| †Aphia djafarovae Bratishko et. al., 2015
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Aphia djafarovae is an extinct species of Aphia that lived during the Serravallian stage of the Miocene epoch.
Distribution
Otolith fossils of A. djafarovae are known from the Mangyshlak Peninsula of western Kazakhstan.[1]
References
- ^ Bratishko, Andriy; Schwarzhans, Werner; Reichenbacher, Bettina; Vernyhorova, Yuliia; Ćorić, Stjepan (8 August 2015). "Fish otoliths from the Konkian (Miocene, early Serravallian) of Mangyshlak (Kazakhstan): testimony to an early endemic evolution in the Eastern Paratethys". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 89 (4): 839–889. doi:10.1007/s12542-015-0274-4. ISSN 0031-0220. Retrieved 26 April 2025 – via Springer Nature Link.