Lepidopus
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| Lepidopus Temporal range: | |
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| Drawing of Lepidopus caudatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scombriformes |
| Family: | Trichiuridae |
| Subfamily: | Lepidopodinae |
| Genus: | Lepidopus Goüan, 1770 |
| Type species | |
| Lepidopus gouanianus Lacepède, 1800 | |
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Lepidopus is a genus of cutlassfishes.[1]
These fishes lived from the Oligocene to Quaternary (from 33.9 to 1.806 million years ago). Fossils have been found in Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Azerbaijan, the Czech Republic, Germany and Hungary.[2]
