Order Summary for Albuliformes

  Main Ref
:
  Order
:
Albuliformes bonefishes
  Class
:
Teleostei
  Sister Order
:
Notacanthiformes 80 M years
  Ref.
:
  First Fossil Record
:
late Cretaceous
  Occurs in
:
Marine
Fresh
Brackish
  Remark
:
Mandibular sensory canal lying in an open groove in the dentary and angular bones (in all other elopomorphs the groove is roofed, in Albula there is a small roof in the angular).
  Class etymology
:
Greek aktis = ray, thunderbolt, beam + Greek pterygion, diminutive of pteryx = wing, fin. Ref. 45335.
  Order etymology
:
Latin, albulus = whitish (Ref. 45335).
  Families
:
( n = 1 ) -
Albulidae

Ref.
[ e.g. 9948]                       
Glossary
                    [ e.g. cephalopods]

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