Apogon moyesi Steurbaut, 1982

Agiadi, Konstantina, Koskeridou, Efterpi & Thivaiou, Danae, 2021, At the crossroads: early Miocene marine fishes of the proto-Mediterranean Sea, Fossil Record 24 (2), pp. 233-246 : 240

Apogon moyesi Steurbaut, 1982

Fig. 4E

1982 Apogon moyesi – Steurbaut, pl. 2, figs. 14–18

1984 Apogon moyesi Steurbaut, 1982 – Steurbaut, pl. 20, figs. 20–22

Material

One otolith from level 11.

Distribution

Aquitanian of SW France ( Steurbaut, 1982) and the MHB.

Remarks

This specimen is significantly shorter than those assigned to Apogon vigneauxi ( Steurbaut, 1984) , and it shows the same dorsal depression and relative size of the ostium to the cauda (OSL: CaL = 1.128) as A. moyesi from the OligoceneMiocene of Aquitaine Basin ( Steurbaut, 1982, 1984). Compared to the modern species Apogon imberbis from the Pliocene–Holocene of the eastern Mediterranean Sea ( Agiadi et al., 2019, 2020; Agiadi and Albano, 2020), this specimen is shorter (OL: OH = 1.33 compared to a mean of 1.42 in A. imberbis ).

Figures

Figure 4. Photographs of the identified otoliths from the Felli section. (A) Lobianchia sp., Felli 11; (B–C) Myripristis verus Steurbaut, (B) Felli 11, (C) Felli 12; (D) Echiodon heinzelini Huyghebaert and Nolf, Felli 11; (E) Apogon moyesi Steurbaut, Felli 11; (F) “Batrachoidida” vigneauxi (Steurbaut), Felli 11; (G) Blennius sp., Felli 11; (H) Arnoglossus holleri Weinfurter, Felli 11; (I) Microchirus latior (Schubert), Felli 11; (J–K) Mullus elongatus Steurbaut, (J) Felli 11, (K) Felli 12; (L) Cepola yrieuensis Steurbaut, Felli 11; (M–N) Pomadasys sp., Felli 11; (O) Pagrus sp., Felli 11. (F), (H), (J), and (K) have been mirrored to facilitate comparison.