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Amphibia
Taxonomy
Amphibia was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Laurin et al. (2000).
It was reranked as the unranked clade Amphibia by Laurin et al. (2000).
It was assigned to Vertebrata by Huxley (1880), Thurmond and Jones (1981) and Shoshani et al. (1989); to Tetrapoda by Laurin et al. (2000); to Chordata by Sepkoski (2002); and to Tetrapoda by Benton (1985), Gauthier et al. (1988), Gauthier et al. (1989) and Meyer and Zardoya (2003).
It was reranked as the unranked clade Amphibia by Laurin et al. (2000).
It was assigned to Vertebrata by Huxley (1880), Thurmond and Jones (1981) and Shoshani et al. (1989); to Tetrapoda by Laurin et al. (2000); to Chordata by Sepkoski (2002); and to Tetrapoda by Benton (1985), Gauthier et al. (1988), Gauthier et al. (1989) and Meyer and Zardoya (2003).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1758 | Amphibia Linnaeus p. 12 |
| 1866 | Lissamphibia Haeckel p. CXXXI |
| 1880 | Amphibia Huxley p. 661 |
| 1981 | Amphibia Thurmond and Jones p. 109 |
| 1985 | Amphibia Benton p. 153 |
| 1988 | Amphibia Gauthier et al. p. 139 fig. 4.3 |
| 1989 | Amphibia Gauthier et al. p. 339 |
| 1989 | Lissamphibia Gauthier et al. p. 349 |
| 1989 | Amphibia Shoshani et al. p. 436 |
| 1998 | Lissamphibia Dong and Wang p. 160 |
| 2000 | Amphibia Laurin et al. p. 119 fig. 2b |
| 2000 | Lissamphibia Laurin et al. p. 119 fig. 2b |
| 2001 | Lissamphibia Gao and Shubin p. 574 |
| 2001 | Lissamphibia Gao and Wang p. 461 |
| 2002 | Amphibia Sepkoski, Jr. |
| 2003 | Lissamphibia Gao and Shubin p. 424 |
| 2003 | Amphibia Meyer and Zardoya |
| 2003 | Lissamphibia Meyer and Zardoya |
| 2009 | Lissamphibia Zhang et al. p. 552 |
| 2012 | Lissamphibia Maddin et al. |
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