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Parascopelus
Taxonomy
Parascopelus is a genus. It is not extant. Its type is Parascopelus lacertosus.
It was assigned to Scopelidae by Sauvage (1873); to Actinopterygii by Woodward (1901); to Sudidae by Arambourg (1925); to Alepisauriformes by Sepkoski (2002); and to Bathysauropsidae by Carnevale (2007) and Legendre et al. (2020).
It was assigned to Scopelidae by Sauvage (1873); to Actinopterygii by Woodward (1901); to Sudidae by Arambourg (1925); to Alepisauriformes by Sepkoski (2002); and to Bathysauropsidae by Carnevale (2007) and Legendre et al. (2020).
Species
P. lacertosus (type species)
Synonymy list
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available