| Perleidus Temporal range:
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| Restoration of P. altolepis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Perleidiformes |
| Family: | †Perleididae |
| Genus: | †Perleidus De Alessandri, 1911 |
| Type species | |
| †Perleidus altolepis (Deecke, 1889)
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Perleidus is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish from the Triassic period. Fossils have been found in the Middle Triassic of Italy, Switzerland, and China.[1] The inclusion of Early Triassic species in the genus Perleidus was questioned.[2]
- ^ Lombardo, C.; Sun, Z.-Y.; Tintori, A.; Jiang, D.-Y. & Hao, W.-C. (2011). "A new species of the genus Perleidus (Actinopterygii: Perleidiformes) from the Middle Triassic of Southern China". Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana. 50 (2): 75–83. doi:10.4435/BSPI.2011.08.
- ^ Marramà, G.; Lombardo, C.; Tintori, A. & Carnevale, G. (2017). "Redescription of "Perleidus" (Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii) from the Early Triassic of northwestern Madagascar". Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia. 123 (2): 219–242. doi:10.13130/2039-4942/8328.