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Order Summary for Albuliformes
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Main Ref |
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Order |
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Albuliformes bonefishes |
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Class |
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Teleostei |
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Sister Order |
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Notacanthiformes 80 M years |
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Ref. |
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First Fossil Record |
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late Cretaceous |
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Occurs in |
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Marine |
Fresh |
Brackish |
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Remark |
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Mandibular sensory canal lying in an open groove in the dentary and angular bones (in all other elopomorphs the groove is roofed, in Albula there is a small roof in the angular). |
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Class etymology |
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Greek aktis = ray, thunderbolt, beam + Greek pterygion, diminutive of pteryx = wing, fin. Ref. 45335. |
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Order etymology |
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Latin, albulus = whitish (Ref. 45335). |
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Families |
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( n = 1 ) Albulidae |
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