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Taxon: Species Gavialis gangeticus (Gmelin, 1789) - Gangetic gavial (reptile)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Family) Gavialidae

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

Crocodylia (Clade) Gmelin 1789 [Clark 1988] Ref: P.C. Sereno et al., 2001: 1519 (note 27).
Crocodylia (Clade) Gmelin 1789 [Clark 1988] Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: table 1 (p. 360).
Eusuchia (Clade) Huxley 1875 {Brochu 2003} Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: table 1 (p. 360).
Gavialidae (Clade) Adams 1854 {Brochu 2003 (alt.)} Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: table 1 (p. 361) (Alternate definition).

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

Gavialinae (Clade) Nopcsa 1923 {Brochu 2003 (alt.)} Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: table 1 (p. 361) (Alternate definition).
Gavialoidea (Clade) Case 1930 [Brochu 2003] Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: table 1 (p. 360).

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

Alligatoroidea (Clade) Gray 1844 {Brochu 2003} Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: table 1 (p. 360).
Crocodyloidea (Clade) Fitzinger 1826 {Brochu 2003} Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: table 1 (p. 360).
†Planocraniidae (Clade) Li 1976 [Brochu 2012] Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2012: 524.
†Pristichampsinae (Clade) Kuhn 1968 [Brochu 2003], nom. dub. Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: table 1 (p. 360).
Tomistominae (Clade) Kälin 1955 {Brochu 2003 (alt.)} Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: table 1 (p. 361) (Alternate definition).

Current position

Gavialis (Genus) Oppel, 1811 Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2012: fig. 13.

Historical positions

Gavialis (Genus) Oppel, 1811 Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2012: fig. 13.
Gavialis (Genus) Oppel, 1811 Ref: E. Puértolas et al., 2011: fig. 5.
Gavialis (Genus) Oppel, 1811 Ref: P.C. Sereno & H.C.E. Larsson, 2009: fig. 3.
Gavialis (Genus) Oppel, 1811 Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: fig. 1.
Gavialis (Genus) Oppel, 1811 Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
Gavialis (Genus) Oppel, 1811 Ref: B. Grzimek et al., 1973 (1971): 595.
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