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Mataichthys

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Actinopterygii

Suborder
  
Gobioidei

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Perciformes

Family
  
Eleotridae

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Mataichthys is an extinct genus of perciform fishes which existed in what is now New Zealand in the early Miocene period. It was described by Werner Schwarzhans, R. Paul Scofield, Alan J. D. Tennyson, Jennifer P. Worthy and Trevor H. Worthy in 2012, and contains the species Mataichthys bictenatus, Mataichthys procerus, Mataichthys rhinoceros, and Mataichthys taurinus.

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Mataichthys Wikipedia