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WoRMS taxon details

Tetrapoda

AphiaID

1831 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1831)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Megaclass

Parent

Gnathostomata

Direct children (2)

Ordering

Alphabetically
By status

Children Display

direct main ranks all

Class Mammalia
Superclass Reptilia

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Original description

Not documented

Descriptive notes

Taxonomy Tetrapoda are formally a group under Sarcopterygii. They are placed here apparently as a sister-group of Osteichtyes, but...

Taxonomy Tetrapoda are formally a group under Sarcopterygii. They are placed here apparently as a sister-group of Osteichtyes, but with a lesser rank [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2024). Tetrapoda. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1831 on 2024-11-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

db_admin

2006-07-06 07:36:42Z

changed

Appeltans, Ward

2021-06-29 11:14:19Z

changed

db_admin

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

[taxonomic tree] [list species]

basis of record Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1982). Five Kingdoms : an illustrated guide to the phyla of life on earth. Second edition. Freeman. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Classification Tetrapoda is an informal group of Gnathostomata, containing the Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia and Amphibia, of which the latter do not have marine species. [details]

Taxonomy Tetrapoda are formally a group under Sarcopterygii. They are placed here apparently as a sister-group of Osteichtyes, but with a lesser rank [details]

Definitions

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Language	Name
Japanese	四足類	[details]

To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tetrapoda)
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