Chanidae is a family of fishes which has a number of fossil genera and one monotypic extant genus which contains the

milkfish The milkfish (''Chanos chanos'') is the sole living species in the family Chanidae. However, there are at least five extinct genera from the Cretaceous. The repeating scientific name (tautonym) is from Greek ( ‘mouth’). The species has many ...

(''Chanos chanos'').

Taxonomy

The family Chanidae is subdivided into two subfamilies, the Rubiesichthyinae, which comprises the extinct genera †'' Gordichthys'', †'' Nanaichthys'' and †'' Rubiesichthys'' from the early

Cretaceous The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of th ...

, and the Chaninae which comprises the sole extant genus '' Chanos'' and the extinct genera †'' Dastilbe'', †'' Parachanos'' and †''

Tharrhias ''Tharrhias'' is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous epoch. The type species ''T. araripis'' is named after the Araripe Basin, in which it was found in sediments of the Santana Fo ...

'', also from the early Cretacaeous.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q12811045 Marine fish families Taxa named by Albert Günther Ray-finned fish families