Ophidion tuseti, Schwarzhans, 2023

Schwarzhans, Werner, 2023, Geology and stratigraphy of the Neogene section along the Oued Beth between Dar bel Hamri and El Kansera (Rharb Basin, northwestern Morocco) and its otolith-based fish fauna: a faunal inventory for the Early, Swiss Journal of Palaeontology (4) 142 (1), pp. 1-85 : 29

Ophidion tuseti n. sp.

Figure 16b–g

Holotype SMF PO 101.217 ( Fig. 16b ), Dar bel Hamri, coquina at river level of Oued Beth, Zanclean.

Paratype 5 specimens SMF PO 101.218 , same data as holotype .

Figures

Fig. 16 Ophidiiformes. a, Brotula aff. multibarbata Temminck & Schlegel, 1846, SMF PO 101.215 (reversed), Dar bel Hamri. b–g, Ophidion tuseti n. sp., Dar bel Hamri, Zanclean,b holotype, SMF PO 101.217 (reversed),c–g paratypes,SMF PO 101.218 (c, e–g reversed). h, Ophidion lozanoi Matallanas, 1990, Holocene dredge samples off Nigeria, refigured from Schwarzhans (2013a). i Ophidion saldanhai Matallanas & Brito, 1999, extant, Gabon, leg. ZMUC (reversed). j, Ogcocephalidae indet., SMF PO 101.276, Dar bel Hamri