Biology:Latimerioidei

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Short description: Suborder of coelacanths

Latimerioidei
Temporal range: Late Permian–present
Latimeria chalumnae01.jpg
Latimeria chalumnae, a latimeriid
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Mawsonia gigas, a mawsoniid
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Class: Actinistia
Order: Coelacanthiformes
Suborder: Latimerioidei
Schultze, 1993
Families

Latimerioidei is a suborder of coelacanths that contains both extant species of coelacanth in the genus Latimeria. It is defined as "the least inclusive clade containing Latimeria chalumnae and Mawsonia gigas".[1]

It is divided into two families: the extant Latimeriidae, an entirely marine group that survives to the present day with both Latimeria species (with a number of fossil genera also known) and the extinct Mawsoniidae, which inhabited both freshwater and marine habitats and went extinct during the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian).[2][3] This suborder contains the largest coelacanths known to have existed, including the latimeriid Megalocoelacanthus and the mawsoniid Mawsonia.[4] The earliest known member of the group is the Permian mawsoniid Changxingia, although divergence estimates instead predict an Early Triassic origin.[5][6]

The Latimerioidei may have evolved from the Whiteiidae, an extinct family of coelacanths known from a few Triassic-aged genera.[2]

References

  1. Dutel, Hugo; Maisey, John G.; Schwimmer, David R.; Janvier, Philippe; Herbin, Marc; Clément, Gaël (2012-11-27). "The Giant Cretaceous Coelacanth (Actinistia, Sarcopterygii) Megalocoelacanthus dobiei Schwimmer, Stewart & Williams, 1994, and Its Bearing on Latimerioidei Interrelationships" (in en). PLOS ONE 7 (11): e49911. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049911. ISSN 1932-6203. PMID 23209614. PMC 3507921. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0049911. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Uyeno, Teruya; Yabumoto, Yoshitaka (November 2007). "ORIGIN OF EXTANT COELACANTHS". https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Teruya-Uyeno/publication/257922614_Origin_of_extant_coelacanths/links/0deec5261db5d26deb000000/Origin-of-extant-coelacanths.pdf. 
  3. Cavin, Lionel; Buffetaut, Eric; Dutour, Yves; Garcia, Géraldine; Le Loeuff, Jean; Méchin, Annie; Méchin, Patrick; Tong, Haiyan et al. (2020-06-05). Carnevale, Giorgio. ed. "The last known freshwater coelacanths: New Late Cretaceous mawsoniid remains (Osteichthyes: Actinistia) from Southern France" (in en). PLOS ONE 15 (6): e0234183. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0234183. ISSN 1932-6203. PMID 32502171. 
  4. Dutel, Hugo; Maisey, John G.; Schwimmer, David R.; Janvier, Philippe; Herbin, Marc; Clément, Gaël (2012-11-27). Soares, Daphne. ed. "The Giant Cretaceous Coelacanth (Actinistia, Sarcopterygii) Megalocoelacanthus dobiei Schwimmer, Stewart & Williams, 1994, and Its Bearing on Latimerioidei Interrelationships" (in en). PLoS ONE 7 (11): e49911. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049911. ISSN 1932-6203. PMID 23209614. PMC 3507921. https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049911. 
  5. "Fossilworks: Latimeroidei". http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=202305. 
  6. Toriño, Pablo; Soto, Matías; Perea, Daniel (2021-12-02). "A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of coelacanth fishes (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) with comments on the composition of the Mawsoniidae and Latimeriidae: evaluating old and new methodological challenges and constraints". Historical Biology 33 (12): 3423–3443. doi:10.1080/08912963.2020.1867982. ISSN 0891-2963. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2020.1867982. 

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