Whiteichthys
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Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Palaeonisciformes |
| Genus: | †Whiteichthys Moy-Thomas, 1942 |
| Species: | †W. greenlandicus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Whiteichthys greenlandicus Moy-Thomas, 1942 | |
Whiteichthys is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Tournaisian age of the Mississippian epoch in what is now Greenland.[1]
It is named after Errol Ivor White.
Whiteichthys was variably classified in the families Palaeoniscidae, Canobiidae or Whiteichthyidae.[2]
References
- 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
- ↑ Schultze, Hans-Peter; Mickle, Kathryn E.; Poplin, Cecile; Hilton, Eric J.; Grande, Lance (2021). Handbook of Paleoichthyology, 8A. Actinopterygii I. Palaeoniscimorpha, Stem Neopterygii, Chondrostei. Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. p. 299. ISBN 978-3-89937-272-4.
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