{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|48|37|Middle Eocene<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 = Aramichthys dammeseki | parent_authority = Signeux, 1959 | authority = Signeux, 1959 }}
'''''Aramichthys''''' ("Aram fish") is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine scombrid fish that lived during the middle division of the Eocene epoch.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France) |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/281267 |title=Notes et mémoires sur le Moyen-Orient |last2=naturelle (France) |first2=Muséum national d'histoire |date=1959 |publisher=Muséum national d'histoire naturelle |volume=t.7 (1959) |location=Paris}}</ref><ref name="sepkoskidb"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Scombridae |url=https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/mhaaramo/metazoa/deuterostoma/chordata/actinopterygii/perciformes/thunniniformes/scombridae.html |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=www.mv.helsinki.fi}}</ref> It contains a single species, '''''A. dammeseki''''' ("of Damascus") from Syria. Its remains were recovered from a chalk-marl quarry in the vicinity of Dummar.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Zouhri |first=Samir |last2=Khalloufi |first2=Bouziane |last3=Bourdon |first3=Estelle |last4=Broin |first4=France De Lapparent De |last5=Rage |first5=Jean-Claude |last6=M'haïdrat |first6=Leila |last7=Gingerich |first7=Philip D. |last8=Elboudali |first8=Najia |date=2018 |title=Marine vertebrate fauna from the late Eocene Samlat Formation of Ad-Dakhla, southwestern Morocco |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/geological-magazine/article/abs/marine-vertebrate-fauna-from-the-late-eocene-samlat-formation-of-addakhla-southwestern-morocco/A44C80D8924A54FFCD435C94B1A44CFC |journal=Geological Magazine |language=en |volume=155 |issue=7 |pages=1596–1620 |doi=10.1017/S0016756817000759 |issn=0016-7568|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Zouhri |first=Samir |last2=Gingerich |first2=Philip D. |last3=Khalloufi |first3=Bouziane |last4=Bourdon |first4=Estelle |last5=Adnet |first5=Sylvain |last6=Jouve |first6=Stéphane |last7=Elboudali |first7=Najia |last8=Amane |first8=Ayoub |last9=Rage |first9=Jean-Claude |last10=Tabuce |first10=Rodolphe |last11=Broin |first11=France De Lapparent De |date=2021 |title=Middle Eocene vertebrate fauna from the Aridal Formation, Sabkha of Gueran, southwestern Morocco |url=https://bioone.org/journals/geodiversitas/volume-43/issue-5/geodiversitas2021v43a5/Middle-Eocene-vertebrate-fauna-from-the-Aridal-Formation-Sabkha-of/10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a5.full |journal=Geodiversitas |volume=43 |issue=5 |pages=121–150 |doi=10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a5 |issn=1280-9659|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
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Category:Eocene fish of Asia
{{paleo-rayfinned-fish-stub}} Category:Scombridae Category:Prehistoric percomorph genera Category:Monotypic prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Category:Fossils of Syria Category:Eocene genera Category:Fossil taxa described in 1959