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Plotosidae (disused)
Taxonomy
Plotosidae is a family. It is extant.
It was assigned to Nematognathii by Jordan (1963); and to Siluroidei by Betancur et al. (2013), Nelson et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Nematognathii by Jordan (1963); and to Siluroidei by Betancur et al. (2013), Nelson et al. (2016).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1963 | Plotosidae Jordan p. 647 |
| 2013 | Plotosidae Betancur et al. |
| 2016 | Plotosidae Nelson et al. p. 220 |
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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. Plotosidae
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Carroll 1988, Bush and Bambach 2015, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||