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Osteoglossiformes

Wikipedia Abstract

Osteoglossiformes (Greek: "bony tongues") is a relatively primitive order of ray-finned fish that contains two sub-orders, the Osteoglossoidei and the Notopteroidei. All of at least 245 living species inhabit freshwater. They are found in South America, Africa, Australia and southern Asia, having first evolved in Gondwana before that continent broke up. The mooneyes (Hiodontidae) are often classified here, but may also be placed in a separate order, Hiodontiformes.
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Family

Arapaimidae (6)
Foreyichthyidae (1)
Gymnarchidae (Gymnarchid fish) (1)
Hiodontidae (mooneyes) (4)
Lycopteridae (9)
Mormyridae (elephant fishes and mormyrids) (247)
Notopteridae (knifefishes) (11)
Osteoglossidae (bandfishes) (13)
Pantodontidae (Freshwater butterflyfish) (2)
Wakinoichthiidae (2)

Genus

Joffrichthys (3)
Lopadichthys (1)
Monopteros (1)
Wilsonichthys (1)
Xixiaichthys (1)

(...) = Species count

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0