Luvaridae is a

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of marine

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...

es belonging to the

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Acanthuroidei Acanthuroidei , is a group of ray finned fishes which is a suborder of the Acanthuriformes, although older classifications regarded it as a suborder of the Perciformes, the largest order (biology), order of fish, The suborder includes the surgeonf ...

in the

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Acanthuriformes Acanthuriformes is a large, diverse order of mostly marine ray-finned fishes, part of the Percomorpha clade. In the past, members of this clade were placed in the suborders Acanthuroidea and Percoidea of the order Perciformes, but this treatment ...

, of which they are the only

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members. The family has a single extant species, the widespread

louvar The louvar or luvar (''Luvarus imperialis'') is a species of marine ray-finned fish, it is the only extant species in the genus ''Luvarus'' and family Luvaridae. This taxon is classified within the suborder Acanthuroidei, which includes the surg ...

(''Luvarus imperialis'') and a small number of known extinct species.

Genera and species

The family Luvaridae contains the following taxa: * Genus ''

Luvarus ''Luvarus'' is a genus of ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Luvaridae. It is the only extant genus in that family and its only extant species is the cosmopolitan louvar (''Luvarus imperialis''), with one fossil species ('' L. necopinatus'' ...

'' Rafinesque, 1810 ** ''

Luvarus imperialis The louvar or luvar (''Luvarus imperialis'') is a species of marine ray-finned fish, it is the only extant species in the genus ''Luvarus'' and Family (biology), family Luvaridae. This taxon is classified within the suborder Acanthuroidei, which ...

'' Rafinesque, 1810 ** ''

Luvarus necopinatus ''Luvarus necopinatus'' is a species of extinct louvar that lived in the Tethys Ocean during the early Paleogene. It differs from the modern species, ''L. imperialis'', in that ''L. necopinatus'' has an oval body shape, and is around one foot i ...

'' ( Danilchenko, 1968) * ''

Aluvarus ''Aluvarus praeimperialis'' is an extinct ray-finned fish, known from two headless larval fossil specimens found in the Pabdeh Formation, a Late Eocene stratum from the Priabonian epoch, of what is now Iran. ''A. praeimperialis'' was originally t ...

''? Bannikov & Tyler, 1995 (disputed) ** ''Aluvarus praeimperialis'' (Arambourg, 1967) * ''

Avitoluvarus ''Avitoluvarus'' ("ancient louvar") is a genus of extinct louvar that lived in the Peri-Tethys Sea during the early Paleogene. The first specimens were found from the Danata Formation Lagerstätten, of the Ypresian age of Turkmenistan, where th ...

'' Bannikov & Tyler, 1995 ** ''Avitoluvarus mariannae'' Bannikov & Tyler, 1995 ** ''Avitoluvarus dianae'' Bannikov & Tyler, 1995 ** ''Avitoluvarus eocaenicus'' Bannikov & Tyler, 2001 * ''

Beerichthys ''Beerichthys'' is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish. It contains a single species, ''Beerichthys ingens'', that was a member of the Ypresian London Clay fauna of lower Eocene England. It is known only from a series of incom ...

'' Casier, 1996 ** ''Beerichthys ingens'' Casier, 1996 * ''

Kushlukia ''Kushlukia'' is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish, closely related to the luvar, that lived during the lower Eocene. ''K. permira'' is from Eocene portion of the Danata Formation Lagerstatten (which otherwise spans the Thanetian epoch ...

'' Danilchenko, 1968 ** ''Kushlukia permira'' Danilchenko, 1968 means extinct

References

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