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Potamops
Discussion
Etymology: Potamos, greek, river; mops a commonly used root word for molossid genera.
Taxonomy
Potamops was named by Czaplewski (1997). Its type is Potamops mascahehenes.
It was assigned to Molossidae by Czaplewski (1997).
It was assigned to Molossidae by Czaplewski (1997).
Species
P. mascahehenes (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1997 | Potamops Czaplewski |
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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.
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| N. J. Czaplewski 1997 | As for the type species |
Measurements
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| Infraorbital foramen diameter | 1 | 1.04 | |||||
| Radius shaft diameter | 1 | 2.90 |
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| Source: s = species, f = family, o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Simmons et al. 2008, Czaplewski 1997, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1991 | |||||