Whiteichthys

Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes

Whiteichthys Temporal range: Tournaisian ^[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	†Palaeonisciformes
Genus:	†Whiteichthys Moy-Thomas, 1942
Species:	†W. greenlandicus
Binomial name
†Whiteichthys greenlandicus Moy-Thomas, 1942

Whiteichthys is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Tournaisian age of the Mississippian epoch in what is now Greenland.^[1]

It is named after Errol Ivor White.

Classification

Whiteichthys was variably classified in the families Palaeoniscidae, Canobiidae or Whiteichthyidae.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2009年04月24日.
^ Schultze, Hans-Peter; Mickle, Kathryn E.; Poplin, Cecile; Hilton, Eric J.; Grande, Lance (2021). Handbook of Paleoichthyology, 8A. Actinopterygii I. Palaeoniscimorpha, Stem Neopterygii, Chondrostei. Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. p. 299. ISBN 978-3-89937-272-4.

see Gnathostomata
Actinopterygii	see below↓

†Austelliscus †Cheirolepis †Cuneognathus †Dialipina ? †Kentuckia †Krasnoyarichthys †Ligulalepis ? †Limnomis †Meemannia †Moythomasia †Naxilepis ? †Orvikuina ? †Osorioichthys †Palaeoneiros †Pickeringius †Raynerius †Stegotrachelus †Tegeolepis †Terenolepis ?
†Howqualepididae	Donnrosenia Howqualepis
†Mimiidae	Gogosardina Mimipiscis
Post-Devonian taxa	see below↓

Dorypterus
Bobasatraniidae	Bobasatrania Ebenaqua Ecrinesomus ?

Mesolepis Paramesolepis Proteurynotus Wardichthys
Amphicentridae	Amphicentrum Cheirodopsis Eurynotus
Styracopteridae	Benedenius Fouldenia Styracopterus