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Actinistia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Scientific name
  
Actinistia

Rank
  
Subclass

Phylum
  
Chordata

Higher classification
  
Sarcopterygii

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Similar
  
Sarcopterygii, Bony fishes, Rhipidistia, Latimeria, West Indian Oc

Actinistia is a subclass of mostly fossil lobe-finned fishes. This subclass contains the coelacanths (Order Coelacanthiformes), including the two living coelacanths, both of the genus Latimeria: the West Indian Ocean coelacanth and the king of the sea.

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Taxonomy

  • Class Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fishes and tetrapods)
  • Subclass Actinistia
  • Family Miguashaiidae (Devonian)
  • Miguashaia
  • Family Diplocercidae (Devonian and Lower Carboniferous)
  • Dictyonosteus
  • Diplocercides (Nesides)
  • Family Hadronectoridae
  • Allenypterus
  • Hadronector
  • Holopterygius
  • Lochmocercus
  • Polyosteorhynchus
  • Spermatodus
  • Family Rhabdodermatidae (Primarily Carboniferous)
  • Caridosuctor
  • Rhabdoderma
  • Sassenia
  • Family Laugiidae (Lower Triassic to Lower Cretaceous)
  • Coccoderma
  • Laugia
  • Trachymetopon
  • Order Coelacanthiformes (coelacanths)
  • Family Whiteiidae
  • Family Rebellatricidae
  • Suborder Latimerioidei
  • Family Mawsoniidae
  • Family Latimeriidae

    • Phylogeny

    The following cladograms are based on multiple sources.

    References

    Actinistia Wikipedia
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