Anenchelum
| Anenchelum Temporal range: | |
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| Specimen of A. glarisianum from Switzerland | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scombriformes |
| Family: | Trichiuridae |
| Subfamily: | Aphanopodinae |
| Genus: | †Anenchelum de Blainville, 1818 |
| Type species | |
| †Anenchelum glarisianum de Blainville, 1818 | |
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Anenchelum (Greek for "not an eel") is an extinct genus of cutlassfish known from the early Eocene to the late Miocene. Several species are known that inhabited the northwestern Tethys and later Paratethys region, centered around east-central Europe and west Asia. This genus was synonymized with the extant Lepidopus for a time before being revived as a distinct genus in 1995.