Aipichthyoides
Extinct genus of fishes
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Aipichthyoides is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine bony fish that lived during the lower Cenomanian in what is now the West Bank.[1][2] Formerly classified in the Polymixiiformes, it is now thought to be a distant relative of oarfish and opahs.
| Aipichthyoides Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Family: | †Aipichthyoididae |
| Genus: | †Aipichthyoides Gayet, 1980 |
| Species: | †A. galeatus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Aipichthyoides galeatus Gayet, 1980 | |
