Zaniolepis

Zaniolepis
Temporal range: Pleistocene to Present
Longspine Combfish (Z. latipinnis)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Suborder: Cottoidei
Superfamily: Zaniolepidoidea
Shinohara, 1994
Family: Zaniolepididae
Jordan & Gilbert, 1883
Subfamily: Zaniolepidinae
Jordan & Gilbert, 1883
Genus: Zaniolepis
Girard, 1858
Type species
Zaniolepis latipinnis
Girard, 1858
Synonyms

Zaniolepis, the combfishes, is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, it is one of two genera in the family Zaniolepididae. These fishes are native to the eastern Pacific Ocean. Z. frenata that was a source of food to the Native American inhabitants of San Nicolas Island off the coast of southern California, United States during the Middle Holocene.