Aeoliscoides
Extinct genus of fishes
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Aeoliscoides is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that lived from the early Eocene. It is known from a single species, A. longirostris, from the famous Monte Bolca site of Italy.[1][2] It was a member of Centriscidae, making it a relative of modern shrimpfish and snipefish.[3][4] Its name references its close resemblance to the extant shrimpfish genus Aeoliscus.
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| Specimen at the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle, Verona | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Syngnathiformes |
| Family: | Centriscidae |
| Genus: | †Aeoliscoides Blot, 1980 |
| Species: | †A. longirostris |
| Binomial name | |
| †Aeoliscoides longirostris (Blainville, 1818) | |
