Aipichthyoides

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|99.6|97|Lower Cenomanian<ref name="sepkoskidb">{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |page=560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |accessdate=2009-02-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archivedate=2011-07-23 }}</ref>}} | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Aipichthyoides galeatus | authority = Gayet, 1980 | parent_authority = Gayet, 1980 }}

'''''Aipichthyoides''''' is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine bony fish that lived during the lower Cenomanian in what is now the West Bank.<ref name="sepkoskidb"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=PBDB |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=441046&is_real_user=1 |access-date=2024-02-03 |website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref> Formerly classified in the Polymixiiformes, it is now thought to be a distant relative of oarfish and opahs.

<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Davesne |first=Donald |last2=Friedman |first2=Matt |last3=Barriel |first3=Véronique |last4=Lecointre |first4=Guillaume |last5=Janvier |first5=Philippe |last6=Gallut |first6=Cyril |last7=Otero |first7=Olga |date=2014-09-02 |title=Early fossils illuminate character evolution and interrelationships of Lampridiformes (Teleostei, Acanthomorpha) |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12166 |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=172 |issue=2 |pages=475–498 |doi=10.1111/zoj.12166 |issn=0024-4082}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Alvarado-Ortega |first=Jesús |last2=Than-Marchese |first2=Bruno Andrés |date=2012 |title=A Cenomanian aipichthyoid fish (Teleostei, Acanthomorpha) from America, Zoqueichthys carolinae gen. and sp. nov. from El Chango quarry (Cintalapa Member, Sierra Madre Formation), Chiapas, Mexico |url=http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1026-87742012000300016&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=en |journal=Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas |language=en |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=735–748 |issn=1026-8774}}</ref>

==See also== {{Portal|Paleontology|Fish}} * Prehistoric fish * List of prehistoric bony fish

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Lampriformes Category:Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Category:Cenomanian genera Category:Late Cretaceous bony fish Category:Late Cretaceous fish of Asia Category:Fossils of Palestine Category:Fossil taxa described in 1980