Aeoliscoides
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Aeoliscoides is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived from the early to middle Eocene.
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| Specimen at the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle, Verona | |
Scientific classification 
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| Unrecognized taxon (fix): | Centriscinae |
| Genus: | Aeoliscoides Blot, 1980 |
| Species: | A. longirostris
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| Aeoliscoides longirostris (Blainville, 1818)
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Description
Aeoliscoides resembled the shrimpfish, an unrelated group of fish. It is mostly brown in fossils, but there were a variety of colors. It lived in the ocean. Its only species is Aeoliscoides longirostris.
Related pages
References
- "Gasterosteiformes". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved November 11, 2012.