| Ateleopus Temporal range: Middle Miocene – Recent |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Superclass: | Osteichthyes |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Superorder: | Stenopterygii (disputed) |
| Order: | Ateleopodiformes |
| Family: | Ateleopodidae |
| Genus: | Ateleopus Temminck & Schlegel, [1846] |
| Synonyms | |
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Podateles Boulenger, 1902 |
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Ateleopus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the jellynose family (Ateleopodidae). It is the type genus of its family, and the order Ateleopodiformes. For some time, it was known as Podateles, because Ateleopus had been used to replace the frog genus name Atelopus, which was deemed to be a spelling error. This was mistaken, however, and the fish and frog genera reverted to their original names.
This genus is attested in the fossil record since the mid-Miocene. It contains the following species:[1]