{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}{{Distinguish|Eclipse}}{{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Barstovian|Tortonian|Late Miocene<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/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archivedate=2011-07-23 }}</ref>}} | taxon = Eclipes | authority = Jordan & Gilbert, 1919 | type_species = {{extinct}}'''''Eclipes veternus''''' | type_species_authority = Jordan & Gilbert, 1919 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = * {{extinct}}''E. extensus'' <small>Jordan, 1921</small> * {{extinct}}''E. manni'' <small>Jordan, 1921</small> * {{extinct}}''E. santamonicae'' <small>David, 1943</small> * {{extinct}}''E. veternus'' <small>Jordan & Gilbert, 1919</small> }}
'''''Eclipes''''' is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived off the coast of western North America during the Late Miocene.<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/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archivedate=2011-07-23 }}</ref> It was a member of the Gadidae, making it closely related to modern cods and haddocks. The several species known from this genus inhabited deep waters in what is now the Los Angeles Basin of southern California.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=California Academy of Sciences |url=https://archive.org/details/occasionalpaper00calif/ |title=Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences |date=1890 |publisher=San Francisco : California Academy of Sciences |others=California Academy of Sciences}}</ref>
The following species are known:<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=PBDB Taxon |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35708 |access-date=2024-12-16 |website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref>
* †'''''E. extensus''''' <small>Jordan</small><small>, 1921</small> - Barstovian of California * †'''''E. manni''''' <small>Jordan</small><small>, 1921</small> - Tortonian of California (Monterey Formation) * †'''''E. santamonicae''''' <small>David, 1943</small> - Late Miocene of California (Modelo Formation) * †'''''E. veternus''''' <small>Jordan & Gilbert, 1919</small> - Tortonian of California (Monterey Formation)
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{{paleo-rayfinned-fish-stub}} † Category:Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Category:Miocene fish of North America Category:Langhian genus first appearances Category:Serravallian genera Category:Tortonian genus extinctions Category:Fossils of California Category:Taxa named by David Starr Jordan Category:Fossil taxa described in 1919