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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Zeiformes |
| Family: | Cyttidae |
| Genus: | †Cyttoides Wettstein, 1886 |
| Species: | †C. glaronensis
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| †Cyttoides glaronensis Wettstein, 1886
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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]
See also
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References
edit- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-07-27.
- ^ Świdnicki, Jacek (1986). "Oligocene Zeiformes (Teleostei) from the Polish Carpathians". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 31: 1–2.
- ^ Macfarlane, John Muirhead (1923). The Evolution and Distribution of Fishes. Macmillan.
- ^ Geology, British Museum (Natural History) Department of; Woodward, Arthur Smith (1901). 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. order of the Trustees.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N. (1990). Catalog of the Genera of Recent Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. ISBN 978-0-940228-23-8.
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