Apateopholis (meaning "confusing scale") is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish. It is the only member of the family Apateopholidae and contains a single species, A. laniatus, from the Cenomanian of Lebanon. It was a relative of modern lizardfish and lancetfish in the order Aulopiformes.[1][2][3] At least one study has found it to be a potential sister genus to the enigmatic Yabrudichthys of the West Bank.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Aulopiformes |
| Superfamily: | †Ichthyotringoidea |
| Family: | †Apateopholidae Goody, 1969 |
| Genus: | †Apateopholis Woodward, 1891 |
| Species: | †A. laniatus
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| †Apateopholis laniatus (Davis, 1887)
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References
edit- ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
- ^ Silva, Hilda M. A; Gallo, Valéria (June 2011). "Taxonomic review and phylogenetic analysis of Enchodontoidei (Teleostei: Aulopiformes)". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 83 (2): 483–511. doi:10.1590/S0001-37652011000200010. PMID 21670874.
- ^ Forey, Peter L.; Yi, Lu; Patterson, Colin; Davies, Cliff E. (January 2003). "Fossil fishes from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Namoura, Lebanon". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 1 (4): 227–330. Bibcode:2003JSPal...1..227F. doi:10.1017/S147720190300107X. S2CID 85606708.
- ^ Chida, Mori (2022). A new species of dercetid and the assessment of the phylogeny of the Enchodontoidei (Teleostei: Aulopiformes) (Thesis). doi:10.7939/r3-nqmz-nf15.[page needed]
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