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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Class: | Dipnoi |
| Order: | †Diabolepidiformes |
| Family: | †Diabolepididae Schultze, 1993 (name only) |
| Genus: | †Diabolepis Chang & Yu, 1987 |
| Species: | †D. speratus
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| †Diabolepis speratus | |
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Diabolepis is an extinct genus of very primitive marine lungfish which lived during in the Early Devonian period. It contains a single species, D. speratus of Yunnan, China, from the mid-late Lochkovian of the Xitun Formation.[1][2] It is one of the oldest known lungfish genera. It is the only member of the family Diabolepididae and the order Diabolepidiformes[3], although neither of these parent taxa have been officially described, despite their names being in scientific usage.[4]
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