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Caudata (salamander)
Taxonomy
Caudata was named by Scopoli (1777) [also attributed to Oppel 1811, but see Dundee 1989]. It is extant.
It was reranked as the superorder Caudata by Zhang et al. (2009); it was reranked as the unranked clade Caudata by McGowan and Evans (1995), Gardner (2001), Gao and Shubin (2001), Gao and Shubin (2003), Meyer and Zardoya (2003), Anderson et al. (2008) and Maddin et al. (2012).
It was assigned to Batrachia by Meyer and Zardoya (2003); to Lissamphibia by Evans et al. (1996), Gao and Shubin (2001), Evans and McGowan (2002) and Gao and Shubin (2003); to Lissamphibia by Dong and Wang (1998) and Zhang et al. (2009); to Amphibia by Holman (1977), Naylor (1978), Holman et al. (1990), Peng et al. (2001), Pearson et al. (2002), Parmley et al. (2007), Venczel and Stiuca (2008) and Böhme (2010); and to Batrachia by McGowan and Evans (1995), Gardner (2001), Zardoya and Meyer (2001), Anderson et al. (2008) and Maddin et al. (2012).
It was reranked as the superorder Caudata by Zhang et al. (2009); it was reranked as the unranked clade Caudata by McGowan and Evans (1995), Gardner (2001), Gao and Shubin (2001), Gao and Shubin (2003), Meyer and Zardoya (2003), Anderson et al. (2008) and Maddin et al. (2012).
It was assigned to Batrachia by Meyer and Zardoya (2003); to Lissamphibia by Evans et al. (1996), Gao and Shubin (2001), Evans and McGowan (2002) and Gao and Shubin (2003); to Lissamphibia by Dong and Wang (1998) and Zhang et al. (2009); to Amphibia by Holman (1977), Naylor (1978), Holman et al. (1990), Peng et al. (2001), Pearson et al. (2002), Parmley et al. (2007), Venczel and Stiuca (2008) and Böhme (2010); and to Batrachia by McGowan and Evans (1995), Gardner (2001), Zardoya and Meyer (2001), Anderson et al. (2008) and Maddin et al. (2012).
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Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1777 | Caudata Scopoli |
| 1960 | Comonecturoides Hecht and Estes pp. 8-9 figs. Pl. 2:3-4, Pl. 3:6 |
| 1960 | Comonecturoides marshi Hecht and Estes p. 8 figs. Pl. 2:3-4, Pl. 3:6 |
| 1977 | Caudata Holman p. 159 |
| 1978 | Caudata Naylor p. 566 |
| 1978 | Comonecturoides Naylor p. 567 |
| 1988 | Comonecturoides Carroll |
| 1990 | Caudata Holman et al. p. 522 |
| 1995 | Caudata McGowan and Evans |
| 1996 | Caudata Evans et al. p. 79 |
| 1998 | Caudata Dong and Wang p. 160 |
| 2001 | Caudata Gao and Shubin p. 574 |
| 2001 | Caudata Gardner p. 334 fig. 8 |
| 2001 | Caudata Peng et al. p. 18 |
| 2001 | Caudata Zardoya and Meyer p. 7380 |
| 2002 | Caudata Evans and McGowan p. 104 |
| 2002 | Caudata Pearson et al. p. 154 |
| 2003 | Caudata Gao and Shubin p. 424 |
| 2003 | Caudata Meyer and Zardoya |
| 2007 | Caudata Parmley et al. p. 76 |
| 2008 | Caudata Anderson et al. p. 517 |
| 2008 | Caudata Venczel and Stiuca p. 733 |
| 2009 | Caudata Zhang et al. p. 552 |
| 2010 | Caudata Böhme p. 10 |
| 2012 | Caudata Maddin et al. |
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