Notopteroidei

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| image = Campylomormyrus tamandua.png

| image_caption = Campylomormyrus tamandua

| taxon = Notopteroidei

| authority = Jordan, 1923

| subdivision_ranks = Subgroups

| subdivision =

{{Extinct}}Laeliichthys
{{Extinct}}Lopadichthys
{{Extinct}}Ostariostoma
{{Extinct}}Palaeonotopterus
{{Extinct}}Sinoglossus?
Notopteridae (featherfin knives)
Mormyroidea
Gymnarchidae (aba)
Mormyridae (elephantfishes)

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Notopteroidei is a suborder of the order Osteoglossiformes that contains the extant families Gymnarchidae (aba), Notopteridae (feather backs and knifefish) and Mormyridae (elephantfishes), as well as several extinct taxa. The Mormyridae are weakly electric fishes, able to locate prey in turbid water.

References

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{{cite journal |last1=Brito |first1=P. M. |last2=Figueiredo |first2=F. J. |last3=Leal |first3=M. E. C. |title=A revision of Laeliichthys ancestralis Santos, 1985 (Teleostei: Osteoglossomorpha) from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil: Phylogenetic relationships and biogeographical implications |journal=PLOS ONE |date=2020 |volume=15 |issue=10 |pages=e0241009 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0241009|pmid=33119676 |pmc=7595333 |bibcode=2020PLoSO..1541009B |doi-access=free }}

{{cite journal |last1=Hilton |first1=E. J. |last2=Lavoué |first2=S. |title=A review of the systematic biology of fossil and living bony-tongue fishes, Osteoglossomorpha (Actinopterygii: Teleostei) |journal=Neotropical Ichthyology |date=2018 |volume=16 |issue=3 |doi=10.1590/1982-0224-20180031|s2cid=92396368 |url=https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2292&context=vimsarticles |doi-access=free }}

{{cite journal |last1=Murray |first1=A. M. |last2=Zelenitsky |first2=D. K. |last3=Brinkman |first3=D. B. |last4=Neuman |first4=A. G. |title=Two new Palaeocene osteoglossomorphs from Canada, with a reassessment of the relationships of the genus †Joffrichthys, and analysis of diversity from articulated versus microfossil material |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |date=2018 |volume=183 |issue=4 |pages=907–944 |doi=10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx100}}

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Category:Osteoglossiformes

Category:Ray-finned fish suborders