# Luganoia

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{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Luganoia
| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|247|237|[Anisian](/source/Anisian)–[Ladinian](/source/Ladinian)}}
| image = 
| image_caption = 
| authority = Brough, 1939
| type_species = {{extinct}}'''''Luganoia lepidosteoides'''''
| type_species_authority = Brough, 1939
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 
* {{extinct}}''L. fortuna'' <small> Xu, 2020</small>
}}
'''''Luganoia''''' is an [extinct](/source/extinct) [genus](/source/genus) of prehistoric [bony fish](/source/bony_fish) that lived during the [Anisian](/source/Anisian) and [Ladinian](/source/Ladinian) [ages](/source/age_(geology)) of the [Middle Triassic](/source/Middle_Triassic) [epoch](/source/epoch_(geology)). Fossils were recovered from the [Besano Formation](/source/Besano_Formation) of [Monte San Giorgio](/source/Monte_San_Giorgio) and [Besano](/source/Besano) area (Swiss-Italian boundary) and from the [Zhuganpo Member](/source/Zhuganpo_Member) (Falang Formation) of [Guizhou](/source/Guizhou), South China.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Bürgin |first=Toni |year=1992 |title=Basal ray-finned fishes (Osteichthyes; Actinopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Canton Tessin, Switzerland). Systematic palaeontology with notes on functional morphology and palaeoecology |journal=Schweizerische Paläontologische Abhandlungen |volume=114 |pages=1–164}}</ref><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/20090220223520/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archivedate=2009-02-20 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Guang-Hui|first=Xu|date=2020|title=A new species of ''Luganoia'' (Luganoiidae, Neopterygii) from the Middle Triassic Xingyi Biota, Guizhou, China|url=http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/202006/P020201020373570214932.pdf |journal=Vertebrata PalAsiatica |volume=58 |issue=4 |pages=267–282 |doi=10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.200624}}</ref> It was also reported from the Ladinian of Spain. 

The genus is named after [Lake Lugano](/source/Lake_Lugano) next to Monte San Giorgio.

==See also==
{{Portal|Paleontology|Fish}}
* [Prehistoric fish](/source/Prehistoric_fish)
* [List of prehistoric bony fish](/source/List_of_prehistoric_bony_fish)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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Category:Middle Triassic fish
Category:Prehistoric neopterygii
Category:Prehistoric life of Europe
Category:Triassic fish of Europe
Category:Triassic China
Category:Triassic Italy
Category:Triassic Switzerland
Category:Fossils of Italy
Category:Fossils of Switzerland
Category:Fossils of China

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