| Ductor Temporal range: | |
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| Specimen at Teylers Museum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Carangiformes |
| Suborder: | Carangoidei |
| Family: | † Ductoridae Blot, 1969 |
| Genus: | † Ductor Agassiz, 1834 |
| Species: | †D. vestenae |
| Binomial name | |
| †Ductor vestenae (Volta, 1796) | |
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Ductor (Latin for "leader", referencing its resemblance and potential relation to the pilotfish, Naucrates ductor) is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the early Eocene. [1] It contains a single species, D. vestenae, known from the famous Monte Bolca site of Italy. [2] It is the only member of the family Ductoridae. It is the earliest representative of the suborder Echeneoidei, and is thought to be most closely related to cobias and dolphinfish. [3]
