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Monotypic taxon:
Family
Protopteridae
Peters, 1855
- African lungfishes
(fish)
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Entity:
Ceratodontiformes (Order) - living lungfishes and their fossil relatives
..†Ceratodontidae (Family) - Australian lungfishes
..†Gnathorhizidae (Family)
..Lepidosirenidae (Family) - South American lungfishes
..Neoceratodontidae (Family) - Australian lungfishes
..†Ptychoceratodontidae (Family)
..Protopteridae (Family) - African lungfishes
....Protopterus (Genus)
Types
Type
:
Protopterus
(Genus)
Owen, 1839
Ref:
J.S. Nelson, 2006
: 465.
[implicit]
Synonyms
In
:
Lepidosirenidae
(Family)
Bonaparte, 1841
Ref:
[Anonymous], 1995
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
African lungfishes
Ref:
J.S. Nelson et al., 2016
: 109; ECoF(14 Mar 2025).
:
African lungfishes
Ref:
W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998
: 2494.
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