''Whiteia'' is an extinct

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of prehistoric

coelacanth The coelacanths ( ) are fish belonging to the order Actinistia that includes two extant species in the genus ''Latimeria'': the West Indian Ocean coelacanth (''Latimeria chalumnae''), primarily found near the Comoro Islands off the east coast ...

fish which lived in Madagascar and Canada during the Early

Triassic The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Year#Abbreviations yr and ya, Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.36 ...

period.

Taxonomy

The nominal species ''Coelacanthus evolutus'' Beltan, 1980 is a junior synonym of ''Whiteia woodwardi''.Forey P. L. (1998) History of the coelacanth fishes (Chapman & Hall, London).

References

Triassic bony fish Whiteiidae Extinct animals of Canada Prehistoric animals of Madagascar Prehistoric lobe-finned fish genera Fossil taxa described in 1935 {{Triassic-fish-stub