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Heterotis (African arowana)
Taxonomy
Heterotis was named by Rüppell (1828). It is extant.
It was assigned to Osteoglossidae by Sereno et al. (2008).
It was assigned to Osteoglossidae by Sereno et al. (2008).
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1828 | Heterotis Rüppell |
| 2008 | Heterotis Sereno et al. |
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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.
G. Heterotis Rüppell 1828 [African arowana]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Oligocene to the top of the Holocene or 27.30000 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (7 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Oligocene | Kenya | Osteoglossidae indet. (174672) | |
| Tortonian - Messinian | Kenya | Heterotis sp. (22241) | |
| Messinian - Zanclean | Kenya | Heterotis sp. (22242) | |
| Zanclean | Kenya | Heterotis sp. (22240) | |
| Zanclean - Piacenzian | Kenya | Heterotis sp. (22235) | |
| Holocene | Niger | Heterotis niloticus (83304 83305) |