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Pantodontidae
Family of ray-finned fishes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Pantodonta, a group of mammals.
Pantodontidae is a family of ray-finned fish in the order Osteoglossiformes. It contains the living freshwater butterflyfish (Pantodon buchholzi) of Africa, as well as several extinct marine species from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of the Sannine Formation in Lebanon.
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Pantodontidae | |
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Freshwater butterflyfish (Pantodon buchholzi) | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Osteoglossiformes |
Family: | Pantodontidae Peters, 1876 |
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