Aramichthys
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''Aramichthys'' is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine
scombrid The mackerel, tuna, and bonito family, Scombridae, includes many of the most important and familiar food fishes. The family consists of 51 species in 15 genera and two subfamilies. All species are in the subfamily Scombrinae, except the butte ...
fish that lived during the middle division of the Eocene epoch. It contains a single species, ''A. dammeseki'' from
Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
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Eocene fish of Asia {{paleo-rayfinned-fish-stub Scombridae Monotypic prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Fossils of Syria Eocene genera Fossil taxa described in 1959