Ijimaia is a genus of jellynose fishes, one of four in the order Ateleopodiformes. The genus occurs in the fossil record since the Middle Miocene.Brzobohatý, Rostislav, and Dirk Nolf. "Revision of the middle Badenian fish otoliths from the Carpathian Foredeep in Moravia (middle Miocene, Czech Republic)." Cybium 42.2 (2018): 143–167.
Species The currently recognized species in this genus are: Ijimaia antillarum Howell-Rivero, 1935 Ijimaia dofleini , 1905 Ijimaia fowleri Howell-Rivero, 1935 Ijimaia loppei Roule, 1922 (Loppe's tadpole fish) Ijimaia plicatellus (C. H. Gilbert, 1905) (deepwater ateleopodid)
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