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Georissidae (disused)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Georissidae

Taxonomy
Georyssidae was named by Laporte (1819). It is extant.

It was reranked as the subfamily Georissinae by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Bouchard et al. (2011); it was corrected as Georissidae by Short and Fikáček (2013), Cai et al. (2022).

It was assigned to Hydrophilidae by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Bouchard et al. (2011); and to Hydrophiloidea by Crowson (1981), Short and Fikáček (2013), Cai et al. (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1819Georyssidae Laporte
1981Georyssidae Crowson p. 694
1995Georissinae Lawrence and Newton, Jr.
2011Georissinae Bouchard et al.
2013Georissidae Short and Fikáček
2022Georissidae Cai et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
Deuteropoda
Mandibulata
PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
Athalassocarida
LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
Cercofilata
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyHydrophiloidea
familyGeorissidae(Laporte 1819)
familyGeorissidae(Laporte 1819)

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. Georissidae Laporte 1819
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015
Collections
No collection or age range data are available