Eoplectus
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| Fossil specimen, Museo di Storia Naturale Verona | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | †Eoplectidae |
| Genus: | †Eoplectus Tyler, 1973 |
| Species: | †E. bloti
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| †Eoplectus bloti Tyler, 1973
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Eoplectus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine tetraodontiform fish that lived during the Eocene. It contains a single species, E. bloti from the Early Eocene-aged Monte Bolca site of Italy.[2] It is the only member of the family Eoplectidae.[3] It closely resembled pufferfishes and porcupinefishes, which it was related to.[1]
It displays some unique morphological traits among tetraodontiforms, that support it being a basal member of the Tetraodontoidei.[4][5][6]
See also
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