Andinichthyidae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Otomorpha
Subcohors: Ostariophysi
Sectio: Otophysa
Ordo: Siluriformes
Familia: †Andinichthyidae
Genera: †Andinichthys – †Hoffstetterichthys – †Incaichthys

Name
†Andinichthyidae Gayet, 1988

Andinichthyidae is a prehistoric family of catfishes from the Cretaceous to Eocene of South America.[1][2]
Species

The four species in four monotypic genera are:

Genus Andinichthys Gayet, 1988.
Andinichthys bolivianensis Gayet, 1988.
Genus Hoffstetterichthys Gayet, 1990.
Hoffstetterichthys pucai Gayet, 1990.
Genus Incaichthys Gayet, 1990.
Incaichthys suarezi Gayet, 1990.
Genus Yuskaichthys Bogan, Agnolin & Scanferla, 2018.
Yuskaichthys eocenicus Bogan, Agnolin & Scanferla, 2018.

References

Ferraris, Carl J. Jr. (2007). "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1418: 1–628.
Sergio Bogan; Federico L. Agnolin; Agustín Scanferla (2018). "A new Andinichthyidae catfish (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes) from the Paleogene of northwestern Argentina". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 38 (3): e1449117. doi:10.1080/02724634.2018.1449117.