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Diodontidae
Taxonomy
Diodontidae is a family. It is extant.
It was assigned to Diodontoidea by Hay (1902); to Gymnodontes by Jordan (1963); to Tetraodontoidea by Tyler and Sorbini (1996) and Santini and Tyler (2003); to Tetraodontiformes by Thurmond and Jones (1981), Purdy et al. (2001), Dica (2002), Carnevale et al. (2014), Nelson et al. (2016) and Carnevale and Godfrey (2018); and to Tetraodontoidei by Kumar and Loyal (1987), Betancur et al. (2013), Bannikov (2014) and Ebersole et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Diodontoidea by Hay (1902); to Gymnodontes by Jordan (1963); to Tetraodontoidea by Tyler and Sorbini (1996) and Santini and Tyler (2003); to Tetraodontiformes by Thurmond and Jones (1981), Purdy et al. (2001), Dica (2002), Carnevale et al. (2014), Nelson et al. (2016) and Carnevale and Godfrey (2018); and to Tetraodontoidei by Kumar and Loyal (1987), Betancur et al. (2013), Bannikov (2014) and Ebersole et al. (2019).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1902 | Diodontidae Hay p. 408 |
| 1963 | Diodontidae Jordan p. 741 |
| 1981 | Diodontidae Thurmond and Jones p. 108 |
| 1987 | Diodontidae Kumar and Loyal p. 75 |
| 1996 | Diodontidae Tyler and Sorbini p. 36 |
| 2001 | Diodontidae Purdy et al. p. 187 |
| 2002 | Diodontidae Dica p. 40 |
| 2003 | Diodontidae Santini and Tyler p. 603 |
| 2013 | Diodontidae Betancur et al. |
| 2014 | Diodontidae Bannikov p. 30 |
| 2014 | Diodontidae Carnevale et al. p. 45 |
| 2016 | Diodontidae Nelson et al. p. 526 |
| 2018 | Diodontidae Carnevale and Godfrey p. 199 |
| 2019 | Diodontidae Ebersole et al. p. 182 |
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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.
Fm. Diodontidae
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G. Chilomycterus Brisout de Barneville 1846
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†Chilomycterus acanthodes Sauvage 1870
†Chilomycterus schoepfi Walbaum 1792
G. Diodon Linnaeus 1758
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†Diodon circumflexus Leriche 1942
†Diodon connewarrensis Chapman and Pritchard 1907
†Diodon erinaceus Agassiz 1844
†Diodon formosus Chapman and Pritchard 1907
†Diodon kugleri Casier 1958
†Diodon tenuispinus Agassiz 1833
†Diodon vetus Leidy 1855
Invalid names: Megalurites Costa 1864 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available