Actinopteri - Tetraodontiformes - Molidae

Etymology - zappai, the name honours the modern music composer Frank Zappa.

Full reference: G. Carnevale. 2007. Fossil fishes from the Serravallian (Middle Miocene) of Torricella Peligna, Italy. Palaeontographia Italica 91:1-67

Belongs to Ranzania according to G. Carnevale 2007

See also Carnevale et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Ranzania grahami, Ranzania laevis, Ranzania ogaii, Ranzania tenneyorum

Type specimen: MSNTC PEL057, a skeleton. Its type locality is Torricella Peligna, which is in a Miocene marine horizon in Italy.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Torricella Peligna

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