| Cyttoides Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Zeiformes |
| Family: | Cyttidae |
| Genus: | † Cyttoides Wettstein, 1886 |
| Species: | †C. glaronensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Cyttoides glaronensis Wettstein, 1886 | |
Cyttoides is an extinct, dubious genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the early Oligocene epoch in the western Paratethys Sea over Europe. It contains a single species, C. glaronensis from the Matt Formation of Canton Glarus, Switzerland. It was a zeiform, originally thought to be related to the extant genus Cyttus . [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] However, more recent studies indicate that it is a fossil of the extant genus Zenopsis . [6]
The modern king dory (Cyttus traversi) was briefly classified into the genus Cyttoides, but was reclassified back when that genus was found to be preoccupied by C. glaronensis. [7]
