Dipulus Waite 1905 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Ophidiiformes - Bythitidae

Parent taxon: Dinematichthyidae according to W. Schwarzhans 2019

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Aotearichthys, Dermatopsis, Ogilbia, Otarionichthys

Subtaxa: Dipulus certus

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Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore-parasite

Distribution: found only at Waihao River, south branch (Eocene to Eocene of New Zealand)

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