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Family Luvaridae (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Acanthuriformes - Luvaridae

Parent taxon: Acanthuriformes according to R. Betancur et al. 2013

See also Bannikov and Tyler 1995, Danil'chenko 1980, Jordan 1963 and Nelson et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Acanthonemidae, Acanthuridae, Acanthuroidei, Lutjanidae, Massalongiidae, Sciaenoidei, Zanclidae

Subtaxa: Aluvarus Avitoluvarus Luvarus Proluvarus

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Uilya-Kushlyuk (Eocene of Turkmenistan)

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