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Megalops

Actinopteri - Elopiformes - Megalopidae

Taxonomy
Megalops was named by Lacépède (1803) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi-u R Sepkoski's reference number: 915]. It is extant.

It was assigned to Elopsidae by Stinton (1957); to Elopidae by Woodward (1901), Casier (1966), Purdy et al. (2001); to Megalopiformes by Sepkoski (2002); and to Megalopidae by Fierstine et al. (2012), Hastings and Dooley (2017).

Species lacking formal opinion data