Taxonomy from Fossilworks.org. Perleidus madagascariensis was recently redescribed by Tintori et al as Teffichthys madagascariensis. Origin of the name: Named after ‘TEFF’ (Triassic Early Fish Fauna; see Tintori et al. 2014), being one of the most common representatives of this assemblage, and from Greek ‘ichthys’, meaning ‘fish‘. Diagnosis from Marramà et al. 2017, p. 223: "Small- to medium-sized basal (non neopterygian) actinopterygian fish having the following unique combinatio