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Alligator (alligator)
Taxonomy
Alligator was named by Daudin (1809). It is extant.
It was assigned to Dactylopodes by Meyer (1845); to Crocodilidae by Cope (1875); to Crocodylidae by Hay (1902) and Hay (1930); to Alligatoridae by White (1942), Carroll (1988), Frank and Ramus (1996) and Lang and Guilette (2002); to Mesoeucrocodylia by Pol and Norell (2004); to Alligatoroidea by Puértolas et al. (2011); to Neosuchia by Wu et al. (1994), Zaher et al. (2006), Larsson and Sues (2007), Fiorelli and Calvo (2008) and Nascimento and Zaher (2011); to Alligatorinae by Wu et al. (1996), Brochu (1999), Snyder (2007), Jouve et al. (2008), Martin and Lauprasert (2010) and Pinheiro et al. (2013); to Globidonta by Martin and Buffetaut (2008) and Farke et al. (2014); and to Alligatorinae by Rio and Mannion (2021).
It was assigned to Dactylopodes by Meyer (1845); to Crocodilidae by Cope (1875); to Crocodylidae by Hay (1902) and Hay (1930); to Alligatoridae by White (1942), Carroll (1988), Frank and Ramus (1996) and Lang and Guilette (2002); to Mesoeucrocodylia by Pol and Norell (2004); to Alligatoroidea by Puértolas et al. (2011); to Neosuchia by Wu et al. (1994), Zaher et al. (2006), Larsson and Sues (2007), Fiorelli and Calvo (2008) and Nascimento and Zaher (2011); to Alligatorinae by Wu et al. (1996), Brochu (1999), Snyder (2007), Jouve et al. (2008), Martin and Lauprasert (2010) and Pinheiro et al. (2013); to Globidonta by Martin and Buffetaut (2008) and Farke et al. (2014); and to Alligatorinae by Rio and Mannion (2021).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1809 | Alligator Daudin |
1845 | Alligator Meyer p. 281 |
1875 | Alligator Cope p. 54 |
1902 | Alligator Hay p. 514 |
1930 | Alligator Hay p. 156 |
1942 | Alligator White p. 7 |
1988 | Alligator Carroll |
1994 | Alligator Wu et al. |
1996 | Alligator Frank and Ramus |
1996 | Alligator Wu et al. |
1999 | Alligator Brochu |
2002 | Alligator Lang and Guilette p. 213 |
2004 | Alligator Pol and Norell |
2006 | Alligator Zaher et al. |
2007 | Alligator Larsson and Sues |
2007 | Alligator Snyder p. 918 |
2008 | Alligator Fiorelli and Calvo |
2008 | Alligator Jouve et al. |
2008 | Alligator Martin and Buffetaut |
2010 | Alligator Martin and Lauprasert |
2011 | Alligator Nascimento and Zaher |
2011 | Alligator Puértolas et al. |
2013 | Alligator Pinheiro et al. |
2014 | Alligator Farke et al. |
2021 | Alligator Rio and Mannion |
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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. Alligator Daudin 1809 [alligator]
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†Alligator gaudryi de Stefano 1905
†Alligator hailensis Stout 2020
†Alligator hantoniensis Wood 1846
†Alligator heterodon Cope 1873
†Alligator luicus Li and Wang 1987
†Alligator mcgrewi Schmidt 1941
†Alligator mefferdi Mook 1946
Alligator mississippiensis Daudin 1801 [American alligator]
†Alligator munensis Darlim et al. 2023
†Alligator olseni White 1942
†Alligator prenasalis Loomis 1904
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Invalid names: Allognathosuchus riggsi Patterson 1931 [synonym], Caimanoidea visheri Mehl 1916 [synonym]
Alligator sinensis Fauvel 1879 [Chinese alligator]
†Alligator thomsoni Mook 1923
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available