Aipichthys
| Aipichthys | |
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| A. minor (Pictet 1850) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Family: | †Aipichthyidae |
| Genus: | †Aipichthys Steindachner, 1860 |
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Aipichthys is an extinct genus of
bony fish that is possibly polyphyletic.[1] Formerly classified in the Polymixiiformes, it is now thought to be a distant relative of oarfish and opahs.[2][3]
Species
Five species have traditionally placed within Aipichthys, but a redescription of the type species in 2016 suggested the genus to be polyphyletic, with only the type species as a member of the genus. The other four species were not moved out of the genus by the authors and were referred as `Aipichthys`.
- Aipichthys pretiosus Steindachner, 1860 (Komen Limestone, Volčji Grad, Komen, Slovenia) (type species)
- Aipichthys minor (Pictet, 1850) (Hakel and Hjoula, Lebanon)
- Aipichthys nuchalis (Dixon, 1850) (Upper Cenomanian English Chalk, Washington, Sussex, UK)
- Aipichthys oblongus Gayet, 1980 (Hakel and Hjoula, Lebanon)
- Aipichthys velifer Woodward, 1901 (Hakel and Hjoula, Lebanon)
