Euteleostei

Euteleostei

Euteleostei

Clade of ray-finned fishes


Euteleostei, whose members are known as euteleosts, is a clade of bony fishes within Teleostei that evolved some 240 million years ago, although the oldest known fossil remains are only from the Early Cretaceous.[1] It is divided into Protacanthopterygii (including the salmon and dragonfish) and Neoteleostei (including the lanternfish, lizardfish, oarfish, and Acanthopterygii).[2][3][4]

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Taxonomy

The following taxa are known:[1]

The divergence dates on the cladogram are based on Near et al. (2012), and the topology is based on Betancur-Rodriguez et al. 2016.[5] In the topology of Near et al. (2012), Galaxiiformes were found to be sister to Neoteleostei instead. Near et al. (2012) explored the phylogeny and divergence times of every major lineage, analysing the DNA sequences of 9 unlinked genes. Near et al. also calibrated (set actual values for) branching times in this tree from 36 reliable measurements of absolute time from the fossil record.[6]

Euteleostei 240mya
Lepidogalaxii

Lepidogalaxiiformes (salamanderfish)

Protacanthopterygii
(225 mya)
Stomiati

Stomiiformes (dragonfish)

Osmeriformes (smelt)

Neoteleostei
Ateleopodia

Ateleopodidae (jellynoses)

Eurypterygia
Aulopa

Aulopiformes (lizardfish)

Ctenosquamata
Scopelomorpha

Myctophiformes (lanternfish)

Acanthomorpha

(175 mya)

References

  1. Near, Thomas J; Thacker, Christine E (18 April 2024). "Phylogenetic classification of living and fossil ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 65. doi:10.3374/014.065.0101.
  2. Laurin, M.; Reisz, R.R. (1995). "A reevaluation of early amniote phylogeny". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 113 (2): 165–223. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1995.tb00932.x.
  3. Betancur-Rodriguez; et al. (2016). "Phylogenetic Classification of Bony Fishes Version 4". Deepfin. Archived from the original on 11 July 2017. Retrieved 30 December 2016.

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