Diaphantes
(Redirected from Diaphantes tilesii)
| Diaphantes | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Trichodontidae |
| Genus: | †Diaphantes Nazarkin & Voskoboinikova, 2000 |
| Species: | †D. tilesii
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| Binomial name | |
| †Diaphantes tilesii Nazarkin & Voskoboinikova, 2000
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Diaphantes is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Trichodontidae, the sandfishes. Its only species Diaphantes tilesii, was found in the Upper Miocene of Sakhalin in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ Nazarkin, Mikhail & Voskoboinikova, Olga (2000). "New fossil genus and species of Trichodontidae and the position of this family in the order Perciformes". Journal of Ichthyology. 40 (9): 687–703.