Lepisosteus

Lepisosteus platyrhincus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Neopterygii
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Craniata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis/Superclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii

Lepisosteus Lacepède, 1803

Etymology: from lepid (= scale); osteus (= bony), referring to heavy bone-like scales. (From The ETYFish project)

Lacepède, B.G.E., 1803: Histoire naturelle des poissons, v. 5: i-lxviii + 1-803 + index, Pls. 1-21. Reference page.

Lepisosteus and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes,
Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2020. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.

Lepisosteus species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2020. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2019.

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