Osteichthyes - Tetraodontiformes - Tetraodontidae
Alternative spelling: Tetrodon
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Parent taxon: Tetraodontidae according to K. Matsuura 2015
See also Schultz 1978, Sepkoski 2002 and Tyler and Santini 2002
Sister taxa: Archaeotetraodon, Eotetraodon, Leithaodon, Sphoeroides, Canthigasteridae, Diodontoidea
Subtaxa: Tetraodon lecointrae Tetraodon scillae Tetrodon pygmaeus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Kenya (6 collections)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Uganda (3)
• Pliocene to Holocene of Uganda (1)
• Pliocene of Kenya (3), Spain (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Angola (1), Uganda (4)
• Miocene of Angola (1), Chad (1), Costa Rica (1), France (2), Portugal (3), Slovakia (1)
Total: 28 collections including 29 occurrences
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