Gardinerpiscis

For the Permian ray-finned fish from Germany/India, see Gardinerichthys.

Gardinerpiscis Temporal range: Kungurian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	†Palaeonisciformes
Genus:	†Gardinerpiscis (Kazantseva-Selezneva, 1981)
Type species
†Gardineria akkolkensis Kazantseva-Selezneva, 1981
Synonyms
Gardineria Kazantseva-Selezneva, 1981

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.

See also

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish

References

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.