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Salmoniformes. Extinct species. Longjaw cisco (Coregonus alpenae) Coregonus bezola. Coregonus fera. Coregonus gutturosus. Gravenche (Coregonus hiemalis) Deepwater cisco (Coregonus johannae)
The Filet-O-Fish is a fish sandwich sold by the international fast food restaurant chain McDonald's. [3] It was created in 1962 by Lou Groen, a McDonald's franchise owner in a predominantly Catholic neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, [4] [5] in response to declining hamburger sales on Fridays due to the practice of abstaining from meat on that day.
Critically endangered (CR) species face an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild. As of July 2017, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed 1,000 critically endangered fish species, including 87 which are tagged as possibly extinct. [1] [2] Of all evaluated fish species, 3.0% are listed as critically endangered ...
Coelacanth. Coelacanths (/ ˈsiːləkænθ / ⓘ SEE-lə-kanth) (order Coelacanthiformes) are an ancient group of lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii) in the class Actinistia. [2][3] As sarcopterygians, they are more closely related to lungfish and tetrapods (which includes amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) than to ray-finned fish.
Oncorhynchus rastrosus. Oncorhynchus rastrosus (originally described as Smilodonichthys rastrosus[2]) also known as the saber-toothed salmon (now known to be misnomer), [3] or spike-toothed salmon[1] is an extinct species of salmon that lived along the Pacific coast of North America and Japan. [4] They first appeared in the late Miocene in ...
Leedsichthys is an extinct genus of pachycormid fish that lived in the oceans of the Middle to Late Jurassic. [1] It is the largest ray-finned fish, and amongst the largest fish known to have ever existed. [2] The first remains of Leedsichthys were identified in the nineteenth century. Especially important were the finds by the British ...
Euteleosteomorpha Greenwood et al., 1966. Euteleostei, whose members are known as euteleosts, is a clade of bony fishes within Teleostei that evolved some 240 million years ago, although the oldest known fossil remains are only from the Early Cretaceous. [1] It is divided into Protacanthopterygii (including the salmon and dragonfish) and ...
Obaichthyidae is an extinct family of ginglymodian ray-finned fish that lived in what is now Africa, South America, and southern Europe during the Cretaceous period (Aptian–Cenomanian ages). They were close relatives of the modern gars of the family Lepisosteidae, with the two groups making up the superfamily Lepisosteoidea. [1]