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Saurocephalidae (disused)

Actinopteri - Osteoglossiformes - Saurocephalidae

Taxonomy
Saurocephalidae was named as a family. Its type is Saurocephalus.

It was reranked as the subfamily Saurocephalinae by Hay (1902).

It was assigned to Chirocentridae by Hay (1902); and to Osteoglossiformes by Thurmond and Jones (1981).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1902Saurocephalinae Hay p. 385
1981Saurocephalidae Thurmond and Jones p. 98

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
superclassActinopterygii()
RankNameAuthor
classActinopteri()
subclassNeopterygii(Regan 1923)
Teleosteomorpha
Teleostei(Müller 1846)
Osteoglossocephalai
Osteoglossocephala
superorderOsteoglossomorpha
orderOsteoglossiformesBerg 1940
familySaurocephalidae
familySaurocephalidae

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: freshwatero
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Created: 2009-07-20 21:33:46
Modified: 2017-04-17 10:33:30
Source: o = order, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988
Collections
No collection or age range data are available