Chondrostei
| Chondrostei Temporal range:
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| Atlantic sturgeon, Acipenser oxyrinchus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| (unranked): | Actinopteri |
| Subclass: | Chondrostei Müller, 1844 |
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Chondrostei is a group of non-
ray-finned fish. While the term originally referred to the paraphyletic grouping of all non-neopterygian ray-finned fish, it was redefined by Patterson in 1982 to be a clade comprising the Acipenseriformes (which includes sturgeon and paddlefish) and their extinct relatives.[1]
Taxa commonly suggested to represent relatives of the Acipenseriformes include the Triassic marine fish cladistic grounds.[2] Coccolepididae, a group of small weakly ossified Jurassic and Cretaceous fish found in both marine and freshwater environments, have also been suggested to be close relatives of the Acipenseriformes. However, this has never been subject to cladistic analysis.[1] Near & Thacker (2023) also recovered the ptycholepiform Boreosomus as a stem-acipenseriform.[3]
The following taxa are known:[4]
- Subclass Chondrostei
- Genus †Eochondrosteus
- Order †Chondrosteiformes
- Family †Chondrosteidae
- Order Acipenseriformes
- Family †Peipiaosteidae
- Suborder Acipenseroidei
- Family Acipenseridae
- Family Polyodontidae
- Disputed taxa include:
- Genus †Birgeria
- Family †Coccolepididae[1]
- Order †Saurichthyiformes[2]
- Order †Ptycholepiformes[3]
References
Wikispecies has information related to Chondrostei.
- ^ S2CID 134207366.
- ^ PMID 30382811.
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- ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.