Cubiceps

Cubiceps is a genus of driftfishes found circumglobally.^[2]

Cubiceps Temporal range: 5.3–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Pliocene to Present[1]
Cubiceps caeruleus (Blue fathead)
Specimen of C. gracilis (Longfin cigarfish)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Scombriformes
Family:	Nomeidae
Genus:	Cubiceps R. T. Lowe, 1843
Type species
Seriola gracilis R. T. Lowe, 1843
Synonyms
Atimostoma A. Smith, 1845 Navarchus De Filippi & Vérany, 1857 Trachelocirrhus Doûmet, 1863 Mulichthys Lloyd, 1909 Mandelichthys Nichols & Murphy, 1944

Species

There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:^[2]

• Cubiceps baxteri McCulloch, 1923 (Black fathead)
• Cubiceps caeruleus Regan, 1914 (Blue fathead)
• Cubiceps capensis (A. Smith, 1845) (Cape fathead)
• Cubiceps gracilis (R. T. Lowe, 1843) (Driftfish)
• Cubiceps kotlyari Agafonova, 1988 (Kotlyar's cubehead)
• Cubiceps macrolepis Agafonova, 1988 (Large-scale cigarfish)
• Cubiceps nanus Agafonova, 1988 (Dwarf cigarfish)
• Cubiceps paradoxus J. L. Butler, 1979 (Longfin cigarfish)
• Cubiceps pauciradiatus Günther, 1872 (Longfin fathead)
• Cubiceps whiteleggii (Waite, 1894) (Shadow driftfish)