Amiiformes
Amiiformes, also known as the bowfins, is an order of fish. The order has only one extant fish, the bowfin. Even though this order has one extant fish, there are others that were gone. The genus Sinamia died already. After death, these prehistoric freshwater Amiiformes turned into fossils.
| Amiiformes | |
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| Extant bowfin Amia calva | |
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| Cretaceous †Sinamia sp. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Infraclass: | Holostei |
| Clade: | Halecomorphi |
| Order: | Amiiformes O. P. Hay, 1929[1] |
| Type species | |
| Amia calva Linnaeus, 1766 | |
| Families | |
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