Cubiceps
{{Short description|Genus of ray-finned fishes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|5.3|0}}
Pliocene to Present{{cite journal
|last=Sepkoski
|first=Jack
|title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera
|journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology
|volume=364
|page=560
|date=2002
|url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class
|accessdate=2007-12-25
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class
|archivedate=2011-07-23
}}
| image = Cubiceps caeruleus (Blue fathead).gif
| image_caption = Cubiceps caeruleus (Blue fathead)
| image2 = Cubiceps gracilis specimen.jpg
| image2_caption = Specimen of C. gracilis (Longfin cigarfish)
| taxon = Cubiceps
| authority = R. T. Lowe, 1843
| type_species = Seriola gracilis
| type_species_authority = R. T. Lowe, 1843
| subdivision_ranks =
| subdivision =
| synonyms = * Atimostoma A. Smith, 1845
- Navarchus De Filippi & Vérany, 1857
- Trachelocirrhus Doûmet, 1863
- Mulichthys Lloyd, 1909
- Mandelichthys Nichols & Murphy, 1944
}}
Species
There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:{{FishBase genus | genus = Cubiceps| month = February | year = 2014}}
- Cubiceps baxteri McCulloch, 1923 (Black fathead)
- Cubiceps caeruleus Regan, 1914 (Blue fathead)
- Cubiceps capensis (A. Smith, 1845) (Cape fathead)
- Cubiceps gracilis (R. T. Lowe, 1843) (Driftfish)
- Cubiceps kotlyari Agafonova, 1988 (Kotlyar's cubehead)
- Cubiceps macrolepis Agafonova, 1988 (Large-scale cigarfish)
- Cubiceps nanus Agafonova, 1988 (Dwarf cigarfish)
- Cubiceps paradoxus J. L. Butler, 1979 (Longfin cigarfish)
- Cubiceps pauciradiatus Günther, 1872 (Longfin fathead)
- Cubiceps whiteleggii (Waite, 1894) (Shadow driftfish)
References
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Category:Extant Pliocene first appearances
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