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Taxonomy
Aporotus was named by Du Bus (1868). It was considered monophyletic by Lambert et al. (2011).
It was synonymized subjectively with Choneziphius by Lydekker (1887); it was synonymized subjectively with Mioziphius by Abel (1905); it was synonymized subjectively with Ziphirostrum by McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Ziphiinae by Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904) and Bianucci et al. (2007); and to Ziphiidae by Du Bus (1868), Gill (1872), Lambert (2005), Lambert et al. (2011), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
It was synonymized subjectively with Choneziphius by Lydekker (1887); it was synonymized subjectively with Mioziphius by Abel (1905); it was synonymized subjectively with Ziphirostrum by McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Ziphiinae by Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904) and Bianucci et al. (2007); and to Ziphiidae by Du Bus (1868), Gill (1872), Lambert (2005), Lambert et al. (2011), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1868 | Aporotus Du Bus p. 626 |
| 1872 | Aporotus Gill p. 96 |
| 1898 | Aporotus Trouessart p. 1061 |
| 1904 | Aporotus Trouessart p. 776 |
| 2005 | Aporotus Lambert p. 482 |
| 2007 | Aporotus Bianucci et al. p. 570 |
| 2011 | Aporotus Lambert et al. p. 47 figs. Fig. 15 |
| 2016 | Aporotus Marx et al. p. 130 |
| 2017 | Aporotus Berta p. 162 |
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available