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{{Short description|Genus of jellynose fishes}}
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| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|14.2|0}} [[Middle Miocene]] to Present
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| image = Ijimaia plicatellus1.jpg
| image_caption = [[Deep-water ateleopid fish]] ''(I. plicatellus)''
| taxon = Ijimaia
| authority = [[Hans Sauter (zoologist)|Sauter]], 1905
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'''''Ijimaia''''' is a [[genus]] of [[jellynose fish]]es, one of four in the order [[Ateleopodiformes]]. The genus occurs in the fossil record since the [[Middle Miocene]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bitner |first=Maria |last2=Hladilová |first2=Šárka |last3=Šamánek |first3=Jaroslav |last4=Turek |first4=Tomáš |date=2024 |title=Middle Miocene (Badenian) brachiopods from the Borač area (Carpathian Foredeep, Moravia, Czech Republic) |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.14241/asgp.2024.06 |journal=Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae |doi=10.14241/asgp.2024.06 |issn=0208-9068|doi-access=free }}</ref>
==Species==
The currently recognized [[species]] in this genus are:<ref>{{FishBase genus | genus = Ijimaia| month = February | year = 2012}}</ref>
* ''[[Ijimaia antillarum]]'' <small>[[Luis Howell-Rivero|Howell-Rivero]], 1935</small>
* ''[[Ijimaia dofleini]]'' <small>[[Hans Sauter|Sauter]], 1905</small>
* ''[[Ijimaia fowleri]]'' <small>[[Luis Howell-Rivero|Howell-Rivero]], 1935</small>
* ''[[Ijimaia loppei]]'' <small>[[Louis Roule|Roule]], 1922</small> (Loppe's tadpole fish)
* ''[[Ijimaia plicatellus]]'' <small>([[Charles Henry Gilbert|C. H. Gilbert]], 1905)</small> (deepwater ateleopodid)
==References==
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[[Category:Ateleopodiformes]]
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