Zaphlegulus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Zaphlegulus_venturaensis.JPG | image_caption = ''Z. venturaensis'' | fossil_range = Late Miocene | taxon = Zaphlegulus | authority = David, 1943 | type_species = †''Zaphlegulus venturaensis''<ref>David, Lore Rose. January 10, 1943. <u>Miocene Fishes of Southern California</u> The Society p 104-105</ref> | type_species_authority = David, 1943 }}

'''''Zaphlegulus venturaensis''''' is an extinct, superficially mackerel-like, fish related to the cutlassfish and snake mackerels found off the coast of what is now California during the late Miocene. ''Z. venturaensis'' was shorter, but stouter than either of the other two better known genera of the extinct family Zaphlegidae, ''Thyrsocles'' and ''Euzaphleges'', which also lived at the same time.<ref>David, Lore Rose. January 10, 1943. <u>Miocene Fishes of Southern California</u> The Society p 104-105</ref>

==See also== * List of prehistoric bony fish

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Euzaphlegidae Category:Prehistoric percomorph genera Category:Miocene fish of North America Category:Monotypic prehistoric ray-finned fish genera