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Rhipidistia

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Rhipidistia

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Rhipidistia


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The Rhipidistia, also known as dipnotetrapodomorphs (formally Dipnotetrapodomorpha) are a clade of lobe-finned fishes which include the tetrapods and lungfishes. Rhipidistia formerly referred to a subgroup of Sarcopterygii consisting of the Porolepiformes and Osteolepiformes, a definition that is now obsolete. However as cladistic understanding of the vertebrates has improved over the last few decades a monophyletic Rhipidistia is now understood to include the whole of Tetrapoda and the lungfishes.

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The cladogram presented below is based on studies compiled by Philippe Janvier and others for the Tree of Life Web Project, Mikko's Phylogeny Archive and Swartz 2012.





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Rhipidistia Wikipedia


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