Cyttoides Explained

Cyttoides is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the early Oligocene epoch in the seas over Europe. It contains a single species, C. glaronensis from Canton Glarus, Switzerland. It was a zeiform related to the extant genus Cyttus.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

The modern king dory (Cyttus traversi) was briefly classified into the genus Cyttoides, but was reclassified back when that genus was found to be preoccupied by C. glaronensis.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. Sepkoski . Jack . A compendium of fossil marine animal genera . Bulletins of American Paleontology . 364 . 560 . 2002 . 2009-02-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class . 2011-07-23 .
  2. Web site: PBDB Taxon . 2024-07-27 . paleobiodb.org.
  3. Świdnicki . Jacek . 1986 . Oligocene Zeiformes (Teleostei) from the Polish Carpathians . Acta Palaeontologica Polonica . 31 . 1-2.
  4. Book: Macfarlane, John Muirhead . The Evolution and Distribution of Fishes . 1923 . Macmillan . en.
  5. Book: Geology, British Museum (Natural History) Department of . Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History): Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the suborders Isospondyli (in part), Ostariophysi, Apodes, Percesoces, Hemibranchii, Acanthopterygii, and Anacanthini . Woodward . Arthur Smith . 1901 . order of the Trustees . en.
  6. Book: Eschmeyer, William N. . Catalog of the Genera of Recent Fishes . 1990 . California Academy of Sciences . 978-0-940228-23-8 . en.

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