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Suborder Balistoidei Kumar and Loyal 1987 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Tetraodontiformes

Full reference: K. Kumar and R. S. Loyal. 1987. Eocene ichthyofauna from the Subathu Formation, Northwestern Himalaya, India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 32:60-84

Parent taxon: Tetraodontiformes according to R. van der Laan 2019

See also Bannikov 2014, Betancur et al. 2013, Ebersole et al. 2019, Fierstine et al. 2012, Kumar and Loyal 1987, Santini and Tyler 2003, Schultz 2004 and Tyler and Santini 2002

Sister taxa: Alutera, Aracanidae, Atlanticopristis, Bolcabalistidae, Eoplectidae, Indotrigonodon, Kyrtogymnodon, Moloidei, Oligodiodon, Ostracioidea, Ostracioidei, Pisdurodon, Plectocretacicoidei, Protobalistidae, Tetraodontoidei, Triacanthodoidei, Triacanthoidei, Trigonodontoidae, Triodontidae, Zignoichthyidae

Subtaxa: Balistidae Balistoidea Bolcabalistoidea Moclaybalistoidea Monacanthidae Triacanthoidea

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

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