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Dictyopyge macrurus
Taxonomy
Catopterus macrurus was named by Redfield (1841). Its type specimen is YPM 3207A, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. It is the type species of Dictyopyge.
It was recombined as Dictyopyge macrura by Hay (1902); it was recombined as Dictyopyge macrurus by Schaeffer and McDonald (1978).
It was recombined as Dictyopyge macrura by Hay (1902); it was recombined as Dictyopyge macrurus by Schaeffer and McDonald (1978).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1841 | Catopterus macrurus Redfield |
| 1902 | Dictyopyge macrura Hay p. 370 |
| 1978 | Dictyopyge macrurus Schaeffer and McDonald p. 144 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Dictyopyge macrurus Redfield 1841
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| B. Schaeffer and N. G. McDonald 1978 | Differs from D. meekeri, new species, in having 45 or 46 vertical scale rows along the lateral line; pelvic fin origin behind the eleventh vertical scale row; anal fin origin behind the twenty-second vertical scale row; dorsal fin origin behind the twenty-eighth vertical scale row. Sample size range from approximately 105 mm. to 125 mm. |
Measurements
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| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||