See text Palimphyes is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish known from the Paleogene period.

It was a euzaphlegid, an extinct family of scombroid fish related to the escolars and snake mackerels.

[1] The various species lived as deepwater mesopelagic predators throughout the Tethys and Paratethys oceans, with fossils of ten species found in earliest Eocene to Oligocene strata of the Swiss Alps, the Carpathian and Caucasus Mountains, Iran, India, and Turkmenistan.

The following species are known:[2][3] Indeterminate species are also known from the early Oligocene-aged Menilite Formation of Poland and the Czech Republic.

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