| Kyphosichthys Temporal range: Middle Triassic,
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| Holotype skeleton of K. grandei | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Clade: | Ginglymodi |
| Order: | †Kyphosichthyiformes |
| Family: | †Kyphosichthyidae |
| Genus: | †Kyphosichthys Xu & Wu, 2011 |
| Species: | †K. grandei
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| Binomial name | |
| †Kyphosichthys grandei Xu & Wu, 2011
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Kyphosichthys is an extinct genus of basal actinopterygian bony fish known from the lower Middle Triassic (Anisian) marine deposits (Guanling Formation) in Luoping, eastern Yunnan Province, southwestern China.[1] The species is the first known fossil record of highly deep-bodied ginglymodians.
- ^ Xu, G. -H.; F.- X., Wu. (2011). "A deep-bodied ginglymodian fish from the Middle Triassic of eastern Yunnan Province, China, and the phylogeny of lower neopterygians". Chinese Science Bulletin. 57: 111–118. doi:10.1007/s11434-011-4719-1.