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Taxon: Species Protopterus amphibius (Peters, 1844) - East African lungfish (fish)
Classification by:

Natura - nature
Status: extant
   actualia - actual entities
  Status: extant
     Mundus Plinius - physical world
    Status: extant
       naturalia - natural bodies
      Status: extant
         [crown] Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
        Status: extant
           Clade neomura Cavalier-Smith, 1987
          Period: Pre-Ediacaran - Present (4567 Ma - present); Status: extant
             Domain Eukaryota Chatton, 1925 - eukaryotes
            Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Status: extant
               Clade discaria Cavalier-Smith, 2021
              Status: extant
                 Clade dorsates Cavalier-Smith, 2021
                Status: extant
                   Clade podiates Cavalier-Smith, 2012
                  Period: Pre-Ediacaran - Present (4567 Ma - present); Status: extant
                     [crown] Clade Amorphea Adl et al. 2012 [Simpson, Medina & Adl 2020]
                    Status: extant
                       [crown] Clade Obazoa Brown, Sharpe, Silberman, Heiss, Lang, Simpson & Roger 2013
                      Status: extant
                         [crown] Clade Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith 1987 [Simpson & Medina 2020] - animal-fungal clade
                        Status: extant
                           Superkingdom Holozoa Lang, O'Kelly, Nerad, Gray & Burger, 2002
                          Status: extant
                             Clade filozoa Shalchian-Tabrizi, Minge, Espelund, Orr, Ruden, Jakobsen & Cavalier-Smith, 2008
                            Status: extant
                               Kingdom Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
                              Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Status: extant
                                 Clade Planulozoa Wallberg, Thollesson, Farris & Jondelius 2004
                                Status: extant
                                   Subkingdom Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 - bilaterians
                                  Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Status: extant
                                     Clade Nephrozoa Jondelius, Ruiz-Trillo, Baguñà & Riutort 2002
                                    Status: extant
                                       Infrakingdom Deuterostomia Grobben, 1908
                                      Status: extant
                                         Phylum Chordata Bateson, 1885 - chordates
                                        Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Status: extant
                                           Subphylum Vertebrata Cuvier, 1812 - vertebrates
                                          Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Status: extant
                                             Myopterygii - myopterygians
                                            Status: extant
                                               Superclass Gnathostomata Gegenbaur, 1874 - jawed vertebrates
                                              Status: extant
                                                 Grade Teleostomi Bonaparte, 1836
                                                Status: extant
                                                   Euteleostomi - bony vertebrates
                                                  Status: extant
                                                     Clade Sarcopterygii Romer, 1955
                                                    Status: extant
                                                       [crown] Rhipidistia Cope, 1887
                                                      Status: extant
                                                        | Clade Tetrapodomorpha Ahlberg, 1991
                                                        |Status: extant
                                                        |   Clade Osteolepidimorpha
                                                        |  Status: extant
                                                        |     Clade Tetrapoda Hatschek & Cori 1896 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988]
                                                        |    Distribution: Palearctic/Europe (marine, freshwater & terrestrial); Status: extant
                                                        |       [crown] Clade Neotetrapoda
                                                        |      Status: extant
                                                        |         Clade Reptiliomorpha Säve-Söderbergh, 1934
                                                        |        Status: extant
                                                        |           Batrachosauria
                                                        |          Status: extant
                                                        |             [crown] Clade Amniota Haeckel, 1866 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988] - amniotes
                                                        |            Status: extant
                                                        |               Clade Synapsida Osborn 1903 [Gauthier et al. 1989]
                                                        |              Status: extant
                                                        |                 Clade Therapsida Broom, 1905
                                                        |                Status: extant
                                                        |                   Clade Theriodontia
                                                        |                  Status: extant
                                                        |                     Clade Eutheriodontia
                                                        |                    Status: extant
                                                        |                       Clade Cynodontia Owen 1861 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988]
                                                        |                      Period: Late Permian - Present (259.8 Ma - present); Status: extant
                                                        |                         Clade Epicynodontia Hopson & Kitching 2001
                                                        |                        Period: Early Triassic - Present (252.17 Ma - present); Status: extant
                                                        |                           Clade Eucynodontia Kemp 1982 [Rowe 1993]
                                                        |                          Period: Middle Triassic - Present (247.2 Ma - present); Status: extant
                                                        |                             Clade Probainognathia Hopson, 1990
                                                        |                            Status: extant
                                                        |                               Clade Mammaliamorpha Rowe 1988
                                                        |                              Period: Late Triassic - Present (237 Ma - present); Status: extant
                                                        |                                 Clade Mammaliaformes Rowe 1988
                                                        |                                Distribution: cosmopolitan; Period: Late Triassic - Present (237 Ma - present); Status: extant
                                                        |                                   Clade Amphilestheria Gaetano & Rougier 2011
                                                        |                                  Status: extant
                                                        |                                     Clade Holotheria Wible, Rougier, Novacek, McKenna & Dashzeveg 1995
                                                        |                                    Status: extant
                                                        |                                       [crown] Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
                                                        |                                      Distribution: cosmopolitan; Period: Late Triassic - Present (237 Ma - present); Status: extant
                                                        |                                         Clade Theriimorpha Rowe 1993
                                                        |                                        Period: Middle Jurassic - Present (174.1 Ma - present); Status: extant
                                                        |                                           Clade Theriiformes Rowe 1988
                                                        |                                          Status: extant
                                                        |                                             Clade Trechnotheria McKenna 1975
                                                        |                                            Status: extant
                                                        |                                               Clade Cladotheria McKenna 1975
                                                        |                                              Status: extant
                                                        |                                                 Clade Zatheria McKenna 1975
                                                        |                                                Status: extant
                                                        |                                                   Clade Prototribosphenida Wible, Rougier, Novacek, McKenna & Dashzeveg 1995
                                                        |                                                  Status: extant
                                                        |                                                     Clade Boreosphenida Luo, Cifelli & Kielan-Jaworowska 2001
                                                        |                                                    Status: extant
                                                        |                                                       [crown] Subclass Theria Parker & Haswell, 1897
                                                        |                                                      Status: extant
                                                        |                                                         Infraclass Eutheria Gill, 1872
                                                        |                                                        Status: extant
                                                        |                                                           [crown] Cohort Placentalia Owen, 1837 - placentals
                                                        |                                                          Distribution: Asia; Period: Early Cretaceous - Present (145 Ma - present); Status: extant
                                                        |                                                             [crown] Magnorder Boreoeutheria Springer & de Jong, 2001
                                                        |                                                            Status: extant
                                                        |                                                               [crown] Superorder Euarchontoglires Murphy, Stanyon & O'Brien, 2001
                                                        |                                                              Status: extant
                                                        |                                                                 [crown] Grandorder Euarchonta Waddell, Okada & Hasegawa, 1999
                                                        |                                                                Status: extant
                                                        |                                                                   Order Primates Linnaeus, 1758 - primates
                                                        |                                                                  Distribution: Africa; Period: Early Paleocene - Present (66 Ma - present); Status: extant
                                                        |                                                                     Clade Euprimates
                                                        |                                                                    Status: extant
                                                        |                                                                       Suborder Haplorhini Pocock, 1918
                                                        |                                                                      Status: extant
                                                        |                                                                         Infraorder Simiiformes Haeckel, 1866
                                                        |                                                                        Status: extant
                                                        |                                                                           Parvorder Catarrhini Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1812
                                                        |                                                                          Status: extant
                                                        |                                                                             Superfamily Hominoidea Gray, 1825
                                                        |                                                                            Status: extant
                                                        |                                                                               Family Hominidae Gray, 1825
                                                        |                                                                              Distribution: Arctic, Atlantic, Africa, Europe, Asia, Indian Ocean, Australasia, Pacific, North, Middle & South America, Antarctic; Period: Late Oligocene - Present (28.1 Ma - present); Status: extant
                                                        |                                                                                 Subfamily Homininae Gray, 1825
                                                        |                                                                                Period: Late Oligocene - Present (28.1 Ma - present); Status: extant
                                                        |                                                                                   Tribe Hominini Gray, 1825
                                                        |                                                                                  Period: Late Miocene - Present (11.63 Ma - present); Status: extant
                                                        |                                                                                     Subtribe Hominina Gray, 1825
                                                        |                                                                                    Period: Late Pliocene - Present (3.6 Ma - present); Status: extant
                                                        |                                                                                       Genus Homo Linnaeus, 1758 - people
                                                        |                                                                                      Period: Late Pliocene - Present (3.6 Ma - present); Status: extant
                                                        |                                                                                         Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 - human
                                                        |                                                                                        Distribution: Arctic, Atlantic, Africa, Europe, Asia, Indian Ocean, Australasia, Pacific, North, Middle & South America, Antarctic; Period: Middle Pleistocene - Present (0.781 Ma - present); Status: extant
                                                         Clade Dipnomorpha Ahlberg, 1991
                                                        Status: extant
                                                           Dipnoi Müller, 1844 - lungfishes
                                                          Status: extant
                                                             Superorder Ceratodontimorpha [monotypic]
                                                            Status: extant
                                                               Order Ceratodontiformes Berg, 1940 - living lungfishes
                                                              Status: extant
                                                                 Suborder Lepidosirenoidei
                                                                Status: extant
                                                                   Family Protopteridae [monotypic] - African lungfishes
                                                                  Status: extant
                                                                     Genus Protopterus Owen, 1837
                                                                    Status: extant
                                                                       Protopterus amphibius (Peters, 1844) - East African lungfish
                                                                      Status: extant

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