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Actinistia (disused)

Taxonomy
Actinistia was named by Cope (1870). It is extant.

It was reranked as the order Actinistia by Cope (1887), Hay (1902), Rapp (1946), Clement (2005) and Clement (2006); it was corrected as Actinistia by Delsate et al. (2002), Meyer and Zardoya (2003) and Irmis (2005); it was synonymized subjectively with Coelacanthiformes by Long (2011); it was synonymized subjectively with Coelacanthimorpha by Betancur et al. (2013); it was reranked as the infraclass Actinistia by Miles (1977), Ahlberg (1991), Dineley and Metcalf (1999), Forey et al. (2000), Graf (2012) and Nelson et al. (2016).

It was assigned to Rhipidopterygia by Cope (1887); to Rhipidistia by Hay (1902); to Crossopterygii by Rapp (1946) and Jordan (1963); to Actinopterygii by Forey et al. (2000); to Crossopterygidae by Delsate et al. (2002); to Sarcopterygii by Dineley and Metcalf (1999), Meyer and Zardoya (2003), Irmis (2005), Friedman and Coates (2006) and Friedman et al. (2007); to Sarcopterygii by Graf (2012) and Arratia (2015); and to Sarcopterygii by Miles (1977), Ahlberg (1991), Clement (2005), Clement (2006) and Nelson et al. (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1870Actinistia Cope
1887Actinistia Cope p. 1017
1902Actinistia Hay p. 363
1946Actinistia Rapp p. 511
1963Actinistia Jordan p. 609
1977Actinistia Miles
1991Actinistia Ahlberg p. 280
1999Actinistia Dineley and Metcalf p. 11
2000Actinistia Forey et al.
2002Actinistia Delsate et al. p. 37
2003Actinistia Meyer and Zardoya
2005Actinistia Clement p. 481
2005Actinistia Irmis p. 67
2006Actinistia Clement p. 461
2006Actinistia Friedman and Coates
2007Actinistia Friedman et al.
2012Actinistia Graf
2015Actinistia Arratia p. 67
2016Actinistia Nelson et al. p. 103

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
RankNameAuthor
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
ActinistiaCope 1870
ActinistiaCope 1870

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.

Unr. Actinistia Cope 1870
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available