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Namaichthys sculpta

Osteichthyes - Elonichthyiformes - Acrolepidae

Taxonomy
Palaeoniscus sculptus was named by Egerton (1856). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is BMNH P. 12193, a dermal scale, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Styl Krantz, Cape Colony, BMNH fish, which is in a Wuchiapingian lacustrine shale in South Africa.

It was recombined as Namaichthys sculpta by Gardiner (1962).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1856Palaeoniscus sculptus Egerton p. 227 figs. Pl. 28, figs 28-30, 32, 35, 36, 39-42
1962Namaichthys sculpta Gardiner p. 10

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
RankNameAuthor
classOsteichthyes
subclassActinopterygii()
orderElonichthyiformesKazantseva-Selezneva 1977
familyAcrolepidae
genusNamaichthysGürich 1923
speciessculpta(Egerton 1856)

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.

†Namaichthys sculpta Egerton 1856
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Diagnosis
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