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This list of fossil fishes described in 2017 is a list of new taxa of jawless vertebrates, placoderms, acanthodians, fossil cartilaginous fishes, bony fishes and other fishes of every kind that are scheduled to be described during the year 2017, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleontology of fishes that are scheduled to occur in the year 2017. The list only includes taxa at the level of genus or species.

Research

• A redescription of the Devonian lungfish Pentlandia macroptera will be published by Challands and den Blaauwen (2017).^[1]

New taxa

Bony fishes

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Aphia macrophthalma[2]	Sp. nov	In press	Schwarzhans, Ahnelt, Carnevale & Japundžić in Schwarzhans et al.	Miocene		Serbia	A goby related to the transparent goby.
Benthophilus? ovisulcus[2]	Sp. nov	In press	Schwarzhans, Bradić & Bratishko in Schwarzhans et al.	Miocene		Romania	A goby, possibly a tadpole goby.
Benthophilus styriacus[2]	Sp. nov	In press	Schwarzhans, Bradić & Bratishko in Schwarzhans et al.	Miocene		Austria  Romania	A tadpole goby.
Ceratodus kempae[3]	Sp. nov	In press	Frederickson & Cifelli	Early Cretaceous (Valanginian)		Western North America	A lungfish.
Ceratodus kirklandi[3]	Sp. nov	In press	Frederickson & Cifelli	Early Cretaceous (Valanginian)		Western North America	A lungfish.
Ceratodus molossus[3]	Sp. nov	In press	Frederickson & Cifelli	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)		Western North America	A lungfish.
Ceratodus nirumbee[3]	Sp. nov	In press	Frederickson & Cifelli	Early Cretaceous (Albian)		Western North America	A lungfish.
Economidichthys altidorsalis[2]	Sp. nov	In press	Schwarzhans, Bradić & Bratishko in Schwarzhans et al.	Miocene		Austria  Romania	A goby, a species of Economidichthys.
Hesperichthys[2]	Gen. et sp. et comb. nov	In press	Schwarzhans, Ahnelt, Carnevale & Japundžić in Schwarzhans et al.	Miocene		Austria  Bulgaria  Croatia  Serbia  Slovakia	A goby. The type species is H. reductus; genus also includes "Hyrcanogobius" hesperis Schwarzhans, Bradić & Rundić (2015).
Karaganops[4]	Gen. et comb. nov	In press	Baykina & Schwarzhans	Miocene		Bulgaria  Russia ( Krasnodar Krai  Tambov Oblast)	A member of Clupeidae. The type species is "Sardinella" perrata Daniltshenko (1970); genus also includes Karaganops komochtitziensis (Strashimirov, 1985).
Knipowitschia bulgarica[2]	Sp. nov	In press	Schwarzhans, Bradić & Bratishko in Schwarzhans et al.	Miocene		Bulgaria	A goby, a species of Knipowitschia.
Moldavichthys[5]	Gen. et sp. et comb. nov	In press	Baykina & Schwarzhans	Miocene		Moldova  Azerbaijan?  Bulgaria?	A member of Alosinae. Genus includes new species M. switshenskae and possibly also "Clupea" gomotartziensis Strashimirov (1985).
Proneogobius[2]	Gen. et comb. nov	In press	Schwarzhans, Ahnelt, Carnevale & Japundžić in Schwarzhans et al.	Miocene		Croatia	A goby; a new genus for "Gobius" pullus Kramberger (1882).
Protobenthophilus[2]	Gen. et 2 sp. nov	In press	Schwarzhans, Ahnelt, Carnevale & Japundžić in Schwarzhans et al.	Miocene		Austria  Bulgaria  Croatia  Romania	A goby. The type species is P. squamatus; genus also includes P. strashimirovi.
Xenoceratodus[6]	Gen. et sp. nov	In press	Longrich	Late Eocene		Libya	A stem-lepidosireniform lungfish. The type species is X. labyrinthus.

References

1. Tom Challands; Jan den Blaauwen (2017). "A redescription of the Middle Devonian dipnoan Pentlandia macroptera Traquair, 1889, and an assessment of the Phaneropleuridae". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. in press. doi:10.1111/zoj.12491.
2. Werner Schwarzhans; Harald Ahnelt; Giorgio Carnevale; Sanja Japundžić; Katarina Bradić; Andriy Bratishko (2017). "Otoliths in situ from Sarmatian (Middle Miocene) fishes of the Paratethys. Part III: tales from the cradle of the Ponto-Caspian gobies". Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. in press. doi:10.1007/s13358-016-0120-7.
3. Joseph A. Frederickson; Richard L. Cifelli (2017). "New Cretaceous lungfishes (Dipnoi, Ceratodontidae) from western North America". Journal of Paleontology. in press. doi:10.1017/jpa.2016.131.
4. Eugenia M. Baykina; Werner Schwarzhans (2017). "Description of Karaganops n. gen. perratus (Daniltshenko 1970) with otoliths in situ, an endemic Karaganian (Middle Miocene) herring (Clupeidae) in the Eastern Paratethys". Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. in press. doi:10.1007/s13358-016-0115-4.
5. E. M. Baykina; W. W. Schwarzhans (2017). "Review of "Clupea humilis" from the Sarmatian of Moldova and description of Moldavichthys switshenskae gen. et sp. nov.". Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. in press. doi:10.1007/s13358-016-0121-6.
6. Nicholas R. Longrich (2017). "A Stem Lepidosireniform Lungfish (Sarcopterygia: Dipnoi) from the Upper Eocene of Libya, North Africa and implications for Cenozoic lungfish evolution". Gondwana Research. 42: 140–150. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2016.09.007.