Calamostoma

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|50|49|Early Eocene<ref name="sepkoskidb">{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |page=560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |accessdate=2009-02-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220223520/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archivedate=2009-02-20 }}</ref>}} | image =Calamostoma breviculum.jpg | image_caption =''Calamostoma lesiniforme'' | taxon = Calamostoma lesiniforme | display_parents = 2 | parent_authority = Agassiz, 1833 | authority = (Volta, 1796) | synonyms = * {{extinct}}''C. breviculum'' <small>(Blainville, 1818)</small> }}

'''''Calamostoma''''' is an extinct relative of the ghost pipefish that lived during the early Eocene.<ref name="sepkoskidb"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=PBDB Taxon |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35855 |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref> It contains a single species, '''''C. lesiniforme''''' (sometimes erroneously referred to as ''C. breviculum'') from the famous Monte Bolca site of Italy. It is one of the few known fossil ghost pipefishes. ''Calamostoma'' and the other Bolca solenostomid, ''Solenorhynchus'', are both placed in the extinct subfamily Solenorhynchinae.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bannikov |first=Alexandre F. |last2=Carnevale |first2=Giorgio |date=2017 |title=Eocene ghost pipefishes (Teleostei, Solenostomidae) from Monte Bolca, Italy |url=https://iris.unito.it/retrieve/handle/2318/1661157/392851/Bannikov%20%26%20Carnevale%20-%20Solenostomidae%20Bolca.pdf |journal=Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana |volume=56 |issue=3 |pages=319-331}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Carnevale |first1=G. |last2=Bannikov |first2=Alexandre F. |last3=Marramà |first3=G. |last4=Tyler |first4=James C. |last5=Zorzin. |first5=R. |date=2014 |title=The Bolca Fossil-Lagerstätte: A window into the Eocene World. 5. The Pesciara- Monte Postale Fossil-Lagerstätte: 2. Fishes and other vertebrates. Excursion guide |url=https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/149338/1/Carnevale%20et%20al%202014%20The%20Pesciara%20F-L.%20Fishes%20and%20other%20vertebrates2.pdf |journal=Rendiconti della Società Paleontologica Italiana |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=i–xxvii |hdl=10088/25678}}</ref>

==See also== {{Portal|Paleontology|Fish}} * Prehistoric fish * List of prehistoric bony fish

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{{Taxonbar|from=Q56324570}} Category:Solenostomus Category:Monotypic prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Category:Prehistoric percomorph genera Category:Eocene fish of Europe Category:Ypresian genera Category:Fossils of Italy Category:Taxa named by Louis Agassiz Category:Fossil taxa described in 1833