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The Elopidae are an ancient family of ray-finned fish, one of two living members of the order Elopiformes. They containing a single living genus, Elops, and many extinct genera dating back to the Late Jurassic, when the earliest stem-group elopids are known. They appear to have diverged from their closest relatives, the Megalopidae, during the Jurassic.''''

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Instance of
monotypic taxon
Parent taxon
Elopiformes
Image
Elops saurus (line art).jpg
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Commons category
Elopidae
taxon common name
Tienponders
taxon name
Elopidae
taxon rank
family
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The Elopidae are an ancient family of ray-finned fish, one of two living members of the order Elopiformes. They containing a single living genus, Elops, and many extinct genera dating back to the Late Jurassic, when the earliest stem-group elopids are known. They appear to have diverged from their closest relatives, the Megalopidae, during the Jurassic.''

==Etymology== The name comes from the Ancient Greek (élops), variant of (éllops), referring to a kind of serpent or serpentlike sea fish. Compare the name of the unrelated family Elapidae.

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