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Leptolepidiformes

Actinopteri - Leptolepidiformes

Taxonomy
Leptolepiformes is an order.

It was corrected as Leptolepidiformes by Nelson (2006), Nelson et al. (2016) and Arratia (2017).

It was assigned to Teleostei by Nelson (2006), Long (2011), Nelson et al. (2016) and Arratia (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2006Leptolepidiformes Nelson p. 102
2011Leptolepiformes Long p. 242
2016Leptolepidiformes Nelson et al. p. 130
2017Leptolepidiformes Arratia p. 22

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
RankNameAuthor
superclassActinopterygii()
classActinopteri()
subclassNeopterygii(Regan 1923)
Teleosteomorpha
Teleostei(Müller 1846)
orderLeptolepidiformes
orderLeptolepidiformes

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.

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Fm. †Leptolepididae Owen 1859
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G. †Leptolepis Agassiz 1832
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Leptolepis africana Gardiner 1960
Leptolepis bahiaensis Schaeffer 1947
Leptolepis brodiei Agassiz 1845
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Invalid names: Leptolepis nanus Egerton 1845 [synonym], Megastoma apenninum Costa 1850 [synonym], Oxygonius tenuis Agassiz 1845 [synonym], Sarginites pygmaeus Costa 1850 [synonym]
Leptolepis caudalis Agassiz 1843
Leptolepis concentricus Egerton 1849
Leptolepis contractus Agassiz 1834
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Invalid names: Leptolepis affinis Sauvage 1874 [synonym], Leptolepis bronni Agassiz 1832 [objective synonym], Leptolepis constrictus Egerton 1852 [synonym], Leptolepis pachystelus Sauvage 1874 [synonym], Leptolepis pronus Sauvage 1874 [synonym]
Leptolepis crassus Agassiz 1839
Leptolepis disjectus Woodward 1890
Leptolepis dubius Blainville 1818
Leptolepis gregarius Woodward 1895
Leptolepis jaegeri Agassiz 1832
Leptolepis koonwarri Waldman 1971
Leptolepis longus Agassiz 1832
Leptolepis lowei Woodward 1895
Leptolepis macrolepidotus Agassiz 1834
Leptolepis macrophthalmus Egerton 1853
Leptolepis neocomiensis Bassani 1879
Leptolepis neumayri Bassani 1879
Leptolepis nevadensis David 1941
Leptolepis normandica Nybelin 1962
Leptolepis polyspondylus Agassiz 1834
Leptolepis saltviciensis Simpson 1884
Leptolepis sprattiformis Blainville 1818
Leptolepis talbragarensis Woodward 1895
Leptolepis tenellus Agassiz 1833
Leptolepis voithii Agassiz 1834
Invalid names: Ascalabos Münster 1839 [synonym], Megastoma Costa 1850 [synonym], Oxygonius Agassiz 1845 [synonym], Sarginites Costa 1850 [synonym], Tharsis Giebel 1848 [synonym]
G. †Longileptolepis Arratia 2003
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Longileptolepis wiedenrothi Arratia and Thies 2001
Invalid names: Paraleptolepis Yabumoto 1994 [replaced]
G. †Lycoptera Müller 1847
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Lycoptera davidi Sauvage 1880
Lycoptera fuxinensis Zhang 2002
Lycoptera middendorffi Muller 1848
Lycoptera muroii Takai 1943
Lycoptera sankeyushuensis Ma and Sun 1988
Lycoptera sinensis Woodward 1901
Lycoptera tokunagai Saito 1936
G. †Nephrotus Meyer 1928
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available