Pangasius indicus
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Extinct species of fish
| Pangasius indicus Temporal range: ?Paleogene
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| Artist's reconstruction | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Pangasiidae |
| Genus: | Pangasius Valenciennes, 1840 |
| Species: | P. indicus
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| Binomial name | |
| Pangasius indicus Marck, 1876
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Pangasius indicus is an extinct species of catfish of the family Pangasiidae. This fish was a member of the "Sipang Fauna", a lagerstatte from Sipang, Sumatra, of indeterminate age, possibly either Eocene, Oligocene, or even Miocene in age.[1]
References
[edit ]- ^ Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa . 1418: 1–628. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1418年1月1日.
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