Protopterus Owen, 1839

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

GENUS

Published in

Owen, R. 1839. On a new species of the genus Lepidosiren of Fitzinger and Natterer. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 1: 27-32.

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Chordata

class

Dipneusti

order

Ceratodontiformes

family

Protopteridae

genus

Protopterus

Name

Synonyms

Protomelus Hogg, 1841

Rhinocryptis Peters, 1844

Homonyms

Protopterus Owen, 1839

Protopterus Agassiz, 1843

Bibliographic References

1. Cat. Mus. Coll. Surg. London.
2. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version.
3. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version.
4. FishBase
5. Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2024). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2024.
6. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library].
7. Nomenclator Zoologicus (auth. adjusted as per Eschmeyer)
8. SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998
9. SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998, PaleoDB
10. WoRMS (Mar 2013)
11. WoRMS (Mar 2013)