''Aipichthys'' is an extinct genus of
bony fish
Osteichthyes (), popularly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse superclass of fish that have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue. They can be contrasted with the Chondrichthyes, which have skeletons primarily composed of cartilag ...
that is possibly polyphyletic.
Species
Five species have traditionally placed within ''Aipichthys'', but a redescription of the type species in 2016 suggested the genus to be polyphyletic, with only the type species as a member of the genus. The other four species were not moved out of the genus by the authors and were referred as ''`Aipichthys`''.
*''Aipichthys pretiosus''
Steindachner, 1860 (
Komen Limestone
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Name
Komen was attested in written sources in 1247 as ''Cominum'' (and a ...
, Volčji Grad, Komen, Slovenia) (type species)
*''Aipichthys minor''
(Pictet, 1850) (Hakel and
Hjoula, Lebanon)
*''Aipichthys nuchalis''
(Dixon, 1850) (Upper Cenomanian
English Chalk
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, Washington, Sussex, UK)
*''Aipichthys oblongus''
Gayet, 1980 (Hakel and Hjoula, Lebanon)
*''Aipichthys velifer''
Woodward, 1901 (Hakel and Hjoula, Lebanon)
References
Polymixiiformes
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