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Pygaeus
Taxonomy
Pygaeus was named by Agassiz (1835) [Sepkoski's age data: T Eo-m-l Sepkoski's reference number: 718]. It is the type genus of Pygaeidae.
It was assigned to Chaetodontes by Agassiz (1835); to Chaetodontidae by Eastman (1904); to Perciformes by Sepkoski (2002); to Percoidei by Carnevale et al. (2014), Bannikov (2014); and to Pygaeidae by van der Laan (2019).
It was assigned to Chaetodontes by Agassiz (1835); to Chaetodontidae by Eastman (1904); to Perciformes by Sepkoski (2002); to Percoidei by Carnevale et al. (2014), Bannikov (2014); and to Pygaeidae by van der Laan (2019).
Species
Entered
by J. Sepkoski on 2003-01-23; modified by M. Clapham on 2021-08-07
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1835 | Pygaeus Agassiz p. 35 |
| 1904 | Pygaeus Eastman p. 30 |
| 2002 | Pygaeus Sepkoski |
| 2014 | Pygaeus Bannikov p. 28 |
| 2014 | Pygaeus Carnevale et al. p. 44 |
| 2019 | Pygaeus van der Laan p. 77 |
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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. †Pygaeus Agassiz 1835
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†Pygaeus agassizii Eastman 1904
†Pygaeus bolcanus Volta 1796
†Pygaeus coleanus Agassiz 1839
†Pygaeus dorsalis Agassiz 1839
†Pygaeus egertoni Agassiz 1842
†Pygaeus gibbus Agassiz 1842
†Pygaeus gigas Agassiz 1835
†Pygaeus nobilis Agassiz 1835
†Pygaeus nuchalis Agassiz 1839
†Pygaeus oblongus Agassiz 1839
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004, Bambach et al. 2007, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||