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Lepisosteidae
Taxonomy
Lepisosteidae was named by Cuvier (1825). It is extant.
It was reranked as the suborder Lepisosteidae by Huxley (1861).
It was assigned to Ganoidei by Huxley (1861); to Lepisostoidei by Thurmond and Jones (1981); to Lepisosteioidei by Case and Schwimmer (1988); to Holostei by Normark et al. (1991); to Ginglymodi by Cavin and Brito (2001); to Lepisosteoidea by López-Arbarello (2012); and to Lepisosteiformes by Estes (1964), Estes and Berberian (1970), Bryant (1989), Cvancara and Hoganson (1993), Weems (1999), Purdy et al. (2001), Peng et al. (2001) and Betancur-R et al. (2013).
It was reranked as the suborder Lepisosteidae by Huxley (1861).
It was assigned to Ganoidei by Huxley (1861); to Lepisostoidei by Thurmond and Jones (1981); to Lepisosteioidei by Case and Schwimmer (1988); to Holostei by Normark et al. (1991); to Ginglymodi by Cavin and Brito (2001); to Lepisosteoidea by López-Arbarello (2012); and to Lepisosteiformes by Estes (1964), Estes and Berberian (1970), Bryant (1989), Cvancara and Hoganson (1993), Weems (1999), Purdy et al. (2001), Peng et al. (2001) and Betancur-R et al. (2013).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1825 | Lepisosteidae Cuvier |
| 1861 | Lepisosteidae Huxley p. 23 |
| 1964 | Lepisosteidae Estes p. 43 |
| 1970 | Lepisosteidae Estes and Berberian p. 3 |
| 1981 | Lepisosteidae Thurmond and Jones p. 84 |
| 1988 | Lepisosteidae Case and Schwimmer p. 297 |
| 1989 | Lepisosteidae Bryant p. 22 |
| 1991 | Lepisosteidae Normark et al. p. 829 |
| 1993 | Lepisosteidae Cvancara and Hoganson p. 13 |
| 1999 | Lepisosteidae Weems p. 54 |
| 2001 | Lepisosteidae Cavin and Brito p. 662 |
| 2001 | Lepisosteidae Peng et al. p. 14 |
| 2001 | Lepisosteidae Purdy et al. p. 161 |
| 2012 | Lepisosteidae López-Arbarello |
| 2013 | Lepisosteidae Betancur-R. et al. |
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