Elopidae
| Elopidae Temporal range:
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| Elops saurus | |
| Davichthys, a fossil elopid from the Late Cretaceous | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Elopiformes |
| Family: | Elopidae Bonaparte, 1832 |
| Type species | |
| Elops saurus Linnaeus, 1766
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The Elopidae are an ancient family of ray-finned fish, one of two living members of the order Elopiformes. They containing a single living genus, Elops, and many extinct genera dating back to the Late Jurassic, when the earliest stem-group elopids are known. They appear to have diverged from their closest relatives, the Megalopidae, during the Jurassic.