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Tetraodontidae
Taxonomy
Tetraodontidae is a family. It is extant. Its type is Tetraodon.
It was assigned to Gymnodontes by Jordan (1963); to Tetraodontoidea by Tyler and Sorbini (1996) and Santini and Tyler (2003); to Tetraodontoidei by Fierstine et al. (2012), Betancur et al. (2013) and Bannikov (2014); and to Tetraodontiformes by Purdy et al. (2001), Carnevale and Santini (2006), Carnevale et al. (2014) and Nelson et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Gymnodontes by Jordan (1963); to Tetraodontoidea by Tyler and Sorbini (1996) and Santini and Tyler (2003); to Tetraodontoidei by Fierstine et al. (2012), Betancur et al. (2013) and Bannikov (2014); and to Tetraodontiformes by Purdy et al. (2001), Carnevale and Santini (2006), Carnevale et al. (2014) and Nelson et al. (2016).
Subtaxa
Archaeotetraodon, Canthigasteridae, Diodontoidea, Eotetraodon, Leithaodon, Sphoeroides, Tetraodon (type genus)
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1902 | Gymnodontes Hay p. 408 |
| 1911 | Gymnodontes Jaekel p. 99 |
| 1963 | Gymnodontes Jordan p. 740 |
| 1963 | Tetraodontidae Jordan p. 740 |
| 1996 | Tetraodontidae Tyler and Sorbini p. 36 |
| 2001 | Tetraodontidae Purdy et al. p. 186 |
| 2003 | Tetraodontidae Santini and Tyler p. 603 |
| 2006 | Tetraodontidae Carnevale and Santini |
| 2012 | Tetraodontidae Fierstine et al. p. 164 |
| 2013 | Tetraodontidae Betancur et al. |
| 2014 | Tetraodontidae Bannikov p. 30 |
| 2014 | Tetraodontidae Carnevale et al. p. 45 |
| 2016 | Tetraodontidae Nelson et al. p. 524 |
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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.
Fm. Tetraodontidae
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G. †Archaeotetraodon Carnevale and Santini 2006
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†Archaeotetraodon bannikovi Carnevale and Tyler 2010
†Archaeotetraodon cerrinaferoni Carnevale and Santini 2006
†Archaeotetraodon dicarloi Carnevale and Tyler 2010
†Archaeotetraodon jamestyleri Bannikov 1990
†Archaeotetraodon winterbottomi Tyler and Bannikov 1994
†Archaeotetraodon zafaranai Carnevale and Tyler 2010
G. †Eotetraodon Tyler 1980
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†Eotetraodon gornylutshensis Bannikov and Tyler 2008
†Eotetraodon pygmaeus Zigno 1887
†Eotetraodon tavernei Tyler and Bannikov 2013
Invalid names: Gymnodontidae Cuvier 1817 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Holocene or 56.00000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 47.8 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 47.8 Ma
Collections (44 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Ypresian | Italy | Eotetraodon pygmaeus, Eotetraodon tavernei (94830) Tetraodontidae indet., Eotetraodon pygmaeus (55239) | |
| Lutetian | USA (California) | Tetraodontidae indet. (200654) | |
| Bartonian | Russian Federation (Krasnodar) | Eotetraodon gornylutshensis (187028) | |
| Miocene | Algeria (Sid Bel Abbes) | Archaeotetraodon cerrinaferoni (133612) | |
| Miocene - Pliocene | Uganda | Tetraodon sp. (22344 22400 22433) | |
| Burdigalian - Tortonian | France | Tetrodon lecointrae (187577) | |
| Langhian | France | Tetraodon lecointrae, Tetraodon sp. (90354) | |
| Middle Miocene | Italy | Archaeotetraodon sp., Archaeotetraodon dicarloi (185486) | |
| Serravallian | Slovakia (Bratislava) | Tetraodontidae indet. (58983) | |
| Badenian | Slovakia (Bratislava) | Tetraodon scillae (161996) | |
| Badenian | Austria | Leithaodon sandroi (90487) | |
| Tortonian - Messinian | Italy | Archaeotetraodon zafaranai (117525) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Costa Rica (Limon) | Tetraodon sp. (162678) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Portugal | Tetrodon lecointrei (56459) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene | Uganda | Tetraodon sp. (22345) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene | Chad | Tetraodontidae indet. (24181) | |
| Messinian | Chad | Tetraodon sp. (59839) | |
| Messinian | Italy | Archaeotetraodon bannikovi (186575) Archaeotetraodon zafaranai (219787) Tetraodontidae indet. (210240) | |
| Messinian | USA (Virginia) | Sphoeroides sp. (179732) | |
| Zanclean | Kenya | Tetraodon sp. (22240) Tetrodon sp. (21406) | |
| Zanclean | USA (North Carolina) | Sphoeroides hyperostosus (52582) | |
| Pliocene | Angola | Tetrodon sp. (154111) | |
| Zanclean - Piacenzian | Kenya | Tetraodon sp. (22239) | |
| Pliocene - Pleistocene | Uganda | Tetraodon sp. (22209 22211) | |
| Pliocene - Pleistocene | Congo-Kinshasa | Tetraodon sp. (22207) | |
| Pliocene - Holocene | Uganda | Tetraodon sp. (22244) | |
| Piacenzian | USA (Florida) | Tetraodontidae indet. (22712) | |
| Gelasian | Kenya | Tetrodon sp. (21398 21418 21420) | |
| Gelasian - Calabrian | Kenya | Tetrodon sp. (21421) | |
| Calabrian | Kenya | Tetrodon sp. (21368 21507) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Georgia) | Tetraodontidae indet. (20604) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (South Carolina) | Sphoeroides hyperostosus (188304) | |
| Holocene | Marshall Islands | Tetraodontidae indet. (194995 194997) |