Pantodontidae is a
family
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of
ray-finned fish
Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fishes, is a class of bony fish. They comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species.
The ray-finned fishes are so called because their fins are webs of skin supported by bony or h ...
in the order
Osteoglossiformes
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. It contains the living
freshwater butterflyfish (''Pantodon buchholzi'') of Africa, as well as five
extinct species from the
Late Cretaceous
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(
Cenomanian) of
Lebanon
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.
Taxonomy
* ''
Capassopiscis''
** ''Capassopiscis pankowskii''
* ''
Palaeopantodon''
** ''Palaeopantodon vandersypeni''
* ''
Pankowskipiscis''
** ''Pankowskipiscis haqelensis''
* ''
Pantodon''
** ''
Pantodon buchholzi
The freshwater butterflyfish or African butterflyfish, ''Pantodon buchholzi'', is the only extant species in the family Pantodontidae within the order Osteoglossiformes. It is not closely related to saltwater butterflyfishes.
Description and hab ...
'' (freshwater butterflyfish)
* ''
Petersichthys''
** ''Petersichthys libanicus''
* ''
Prognathoglossum''
** ''Prognathoglossum kalassyi''
References
Osteoglossiformes
Ray-finned fish families
Extant Cenomanian first appearances
Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters
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