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Actinistia

Actinistia
Temporal range: Devonian–Recent
Latimeria Paris.jpg
West Indian Ocean coelacanth
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sarcopterygii
Subclass: Actinistia
Cope, 1871
Daughter taxa

Orders

Families

Genera

Synonyms
  • Coelacanthimorpha

Orders

Families

Genera

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.

The following cladograms are based on multiple sources.


Rhipidistia

Gavinia

Miguashaia


Dictyonosteus

Diplocercides


Hadronector

Allenypterus

Holopterygius


Lochmocercus

Polyosteorhynchus

Rhabdoderma

Caridosuctor

Synaptolus


Sassenia

Axelia

Coelacanthus

Wimania

Ticinepomis


Coccoderma


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