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

}}

Cubiceps is a genus of driftfishes found circumglobally.

Species

There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:{{FishBase genus | genus = Cubiceps| month = February | year = 2014}}

References

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Category:Nomeidae

Category:Extant Pliocene first appearances

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