Bichirs and the reedfish comprise a freshwater fish family, the Polypteridae, of ancient ray-finned fishes. They are the only family in the order Polypteriformes...

discontinuous ganoine layer, a rectilinear shape, and small articular processes. Polypteridae, the family where it belongs to List of prehistoric bony fish Grandstaff...

paraphyletic (not a clade), and has been broken up by more recent studies. Polypteridae (bichirs) part of Chondrostei: Acipenseriformes (sturgeons, paddlefish)...