Actinopteri - Batrachoidiformes - Batrachoididae

Genus named in honor of the American musician and composer Frank Vincent Zappa.

Full reference: G. Carnevale and B. B. Collette. 2014. Zappaichthys Harzhauseri, Gen. et Sp. Nov., A New Miocene Toadfish (Teleostei, Batrachoidiformes) From The Paratethys (St. Margarethen In Burgenland, Austria), With Comments On The Fossil Record Of Batrachoidform Fishes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(5):1005-1017

Parent taxon: Batrachoididae according to G. Carnevale and B. B. Collette 2014

Sister taxa: Batrachoides, Batrachoididarum, Chatrabus, Louckaichthys, Opsanus, Porichthys

Subtaxa: Zappaichthys harzhauseri

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Type: Zappaichthys harzhauseri

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Kummer Quarry (Miocene of Austria)

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