Ductor
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| Ductor Temporal range:
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| Specimen at Teylers Museum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Carangiformes |
| Family: | †Ductoridae Blot, 1969 |
| Genus: | †Ductor Agassiz, 1834 |
| Species: | †D. vestenae
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| †Ductor vestenae (Volta, 1796)
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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]
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.
- ^ 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" (PDF). Rendiconti della Società Paleontologica Italiana. 4 (1): i–xxvii. hdl:10088/25678.
- ^ 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. doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.1200. PMC 3730593. PMID 23864599.
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