Extant taxon, a taxon which is not extinct, such as an extant species
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Columbicola extinctus, also known as the Passenger Pigeon chewing louse, is an extant species of phtilopterid louse that was once believed to have been extinct with its only known host, the Passenger Pigeon, prior to its rediscovery living on Band-tailed Pigeons.
Diplomystids are the only extant catfish family with teeth on a well-developed maxilla (although this is also true of the extinct genus Hypsidoris).
Living Hydrogenophilus thermoluteolus micro-organisms have been found in Lake Vostok's deep ice core drillings; they are an extant surface-dwelling species.
The family contains a single extant genus, Pleocoma, and one extinct genus, Cretocoma, described in 2002 from Late Cretaceous deposits in Mongolia.