Shuleichthys brachypteryx is an extinct species of ray-finned fish which existed in China during the Cretaceous period.

Fossils of the fish were found in the Aptian Xiagou Formation of the Changma Basin.

[1] It is the only species in the genus Shuleichthys and cannot be placed in any order of the Osteoglossomorpha without making that order paraphyletic.

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