Mimipiscis

{{Short description|Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = early Frasnian, Late Devonian, {{Fossilrange|385|380}}

| image = Mimipiscis Eusthenopteron skulls quadratojugal.png

| image_caption = Mimipiscis and Eusthenopteron skulls, quadratojugal highlighted

| taxon = Mimipiscis

| authority = Choo, 2011

| type_species = {{extinct}}Mimipiscis toombsi

| type_species_authority = (Gardiner & Bartram, 1977)

| subdivision_ranks = Other species

| subdivision =

• {{extinct}}M. toombsi (Gardiner & Bartram, 1977)
• {{extinct}}M. bartrami Choo, 2011

| synonyms = * Mimia Gardiner & Bartram, 1977

}}

Mimipiscis is a fossil genus of very primitive ray-finned fishes from the Upper Devonian Gneuda and Gogo formations of Western Australia.{{cite journal | last = Choo | first = Brian | title = Revision of the actinopterygian genus Mimipiscis (=Mimia) from the Upper Devonian Gogo Formation of Western Australia and the interrelationships of the early Actinopterygii | journal = Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh| volume = 102 | pages =77–104 | year = 2012 | issue = 2 | url = http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8514396&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S1755691011011029| accessdate = 2012-03-29 | doi=10.1017/s1755691011011029| bibcode = 2012EESTR.102...77C | hdl = 1885/59192 | s2cid = 129324004 | hdl-access = free }}

The genus was initially described by Gardiner & Bartram as Mimia in 1977, a junior homonym of the skipper butterfly genus Mimia, which was already established by Evans in 1953. The name Mimipiscis derives from the Mimi dreamtime beings of Arnhem Land aboriginal folklore, and the Latin piscis, meaning fish.