Zaniolepis
| Zaniolepis Temporal range: Pleistocene to Present | |
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| 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 | |
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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.