Ductor Explained

Ductor (Latin for "leader", referencing its resemblance and potential relation to the pilotfish, Naucrates ductor) is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the early Eocene.[1] It contains a single species, D. vestenae, known from the famous Monte Bolca site of Italy.[2] It is the only member of the family Ductoridae. It is the earliest representative of the suborder Echeneoidei, and is thought to be most closely related to cobias and dolphinfish.[3]

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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. Carnevale . G. . Bannikov . Alexandre F. . Marramà . G. . Tyler . James C. . Zorzin. . R. . 2014 . The Bolca Fossil-Lagerstätte: A window into the Eocene World. 5. The Pesciara- Monte Postale Fossil-Lagerstätte: 2. Fishes and other vertebrates. Excursion guide . Rendiconti della Società Paleontologica Italiana . 4 . 1 . i–xxvii . 10088/25678.
  3. Friedman . Matt . Johanson . Zerina . Harrington . Richard C. . Near . Thomas J. . Graham . Mark R. . 2013-09-07 . An early fossil remora (Echeneoidea) reveals the evolutionary assembly of the adhesion disc . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 280 . 1766 . 20131200 . 10.1098/rspb.2013.1200 . 3730593 . 23864599.

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