Blabe
| Blabe Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Serranidae (?) |
| Genus: | †Blabe White, 1936 |
| Species: | †B. crawleyi
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| †Blabe crawleyi White, 1936
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Blabe is an extinct genus of small, prehistoric ray-finned fish probably belonging to the family Serranidae that lived during the middle division of the Eocene epoch of Egypt.[1] It has a single known species, B. crawleyi, known from the Upper Lutetian Mokattam Formation limestone of the ancient Tura quarry.[2]
The generic name translates as "nuisance," referring to how the lack of scales on the type specimen frustrated its describer's attempts to understand the fish's exact systemic position.[3] The specific name commemorates one Cecil Crawley, who discovered the first specimen.[4]
See also
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References
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- ^ "Geology of Egypt" Government Press, 1965
- ^ "Annals & magazine of natural history" Taylor and Francis, 1936
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