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Guaymayenia paramillensis
Taxonomy
Guaymayenia paramillensis was named by Rusconi (1946). It is not extant. Its type specimen is MCNAM-PV 547, a partial skeleton (posterior portion of body lobe). It is the type species of Guaymayenia.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1946 | Guaymayenia paramillensis Rusconi |
2010 | Guaymayenia paramillensis López-Arbarello et al. p. 250 figs. Text-figure 1 |
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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.
†Guaymayenia paramillensis Rusconi 1946
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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A. López-Arbarello et al. 2010 | Caudal fin heterocercal, equilobate and moderately cleft, with numerous ventral fringing fulcra and dorsal caudal fulcra, the ventral marginal rays increasing in length from the first to the eighth; dorsal, anal and caudal fin lepidotrichia ornamented with a median ridge; micromeric squamation; body covered with small, quadrangular rhombic scales, all the trunk scales being of equivalent
size and shape; the scales on the body lobe of the tail are elongated in posterodorsal to anteroventral direction to diamond shape and slightly larger than those of the body. |