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Zaniolepis
Zaniolepis
is
a genus
of
scorpaeniform
fish
native
to the
eastern
Pacific Ocean
.
Z. frenata
is known to have been a source of food to the
Native American
inhabitants
of
San Nicolas Island
off the
coast
of
southern
California, United States
during
the Middle
Holocene
.
Species
The
currently
recognized
species
in this
genus
are:
Zaniolepis frenata
C. H.
Eigenmann
& R. S. Eigenmann,
1889
Zaniolepis latipinnis
Girard
, 1858