Diaphantes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Trichodontidae
Genus: Diaphantes
Nazarkin & Voskoboinikova, 2000
Species:
D. tilesii
Binomial name
Diaphantes tilesii
Nazarkin & Voskoboinikova, 2000

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

  1. 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.
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