Whiteichthys
Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes
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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]
| Whiteichthys Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Palaeonisciformes |
| Genus: | †Whiteichthys Moy-Thomas, 1942 |
| Species: | †W. greenlandicus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Whiteichthys greenlandicus Moy-Thomas, 1942 | |
It is named after Errol Ivor White.
Classification
Whiteichthys was variably classified in the families Palaeoniscidae, Canobiidae or Whiteichthyidae.[2]
