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Protopterus aethiopicus (marbled lungfish)
Taxonomy
Protopterus aethiopicus was named by Heckel (1851). It is extant.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
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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.
Protopterus aethiopicus Heckel 1851 [marbled lungfish]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, o = order, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pliocene to the top of the Holocene or 3.60000 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pliocene | Egypt | Protopterus aethiopicus (22592) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Congo-Kinshasa | Protopterus aethiopicus (22065 22066) | |
| Holocene | Congo-Kinshasa | Protopterus aethiopicus (22068) |