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Polyodontidae (paddlefish)
Taxonomy
Polyodontidae was named by Bonaparte (1838). It is extant. Its type is Polyodon.
It was assigned to Chondrostei by Woodward (1895) and Hay (1902); to Selachostomi by Jordan (1963); to Acipenseriformes by Estes and Berberian (1970), Bryant (1989), Grande et al. (2002) and Betancur et al. (2013); and to Acipenseroidei by Grande and Bemis (1996), Grande and Hilton (2006) and Nelson et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Chondrostei by Woodward (1895) and Hay (1902); to Selachostomi by Jordan (1963); to Acipenseriformes by Estes and Berberian (1970), Bryant (1989), Grande et al. (2002) and Betancur et al. (2013); and to Acipenseroidei by Grande and Bemis (1996), Grande and Hilton (2006) and Nelson et al. (2016).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1838 | Polyodontidae Bonaparte |
| 1895 | Polyodontidae Woodward p. 43 |
| 1902 | Polyodontidae Hay p. 371 |
| 1963 | Polyodontidae Jordan p. 613 |
| 1970 | Polyodontidae Estes and Berberian p. 3 |
| 1989 | Polyodontidae Bryant p. 21 |
| 1996 | Polyodontidae Grande and Bemis p. 107 fig. 11 |
| 2002 | Polyodontidae Grande et al. |
| 2006 | Polyodontidae Grande and Hilton p. 1 |
| 2013 | Polyodontidae Betancur et al. |
| 2016 | Polyodontidae Nelson et al. p. 118 |
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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. Polyodontidae Bonaparte 1838 [paddlefish]
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Subfm. †Protopsephurinae Grande and Bemis 1996
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Unr. Polyodonti Jaekel 1911
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Subfm. Polyodontinae
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Tr. Polyodontini
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G. Polyodon Lacépède 1797
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Polyodon spathula Walbaum 1792 [American paddlefish]
†Polyodon tuberculata Grande and Bemis 1991
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available