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Pattersonellidae
Pattersonellidae is an extinctfamily of primitive ray-finned fish. It is tentatively classified under the suborderArgentinoidei of the order Argentiniformes (marine smelts and allies).
The family was established by Louis Taverne in 1982 when he reclassified Leptolepis formosus (originally described by Ramsay Heatley Traquair) to .