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Sarcopterygii or the lobe-finned fishes (coelacanths and lungfishes) were usually classified as either a class or a subclass of Osteichthyes based on the traditional Linnaean classification. Identification of the group is based on several characteristics, such as the presence of fleshy, lobed, paired fins, which are joined to the body by a single bone.[1]

Taxonomic and fossil history

The properties defining the sarcopterygians are in contrast to the other group of bony fish, the Actinopterygii, which have ray-fins made of bony rods, called lepidotrichia. These two bony fish groups were classified together as Osteichthyes at one time, the whole combined group was seen as the sister group to the tetrapods (mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians).

The extensive fossil record and numerous morphological and molecular studies have shown, however, that lungfish and some fossil lobe-finned fish are more closely related to tetrapods than they are to coelacanths; as a result tetrapods are nested within Sarcopterygii.[2][3] This abides to cladistics in that in order for a clade to be monophyletic, it must have an ancestral species and all descendants of that common ancestor based on shared characteristics. As such mammals, birds and reptiles, and amphibians are highly derived lobe-finned fish despite looking nothing like the standard sarcopterygian anatomically speaking.

Current taxonomy

The list below shows the taxonomy of the extant members of class Sarcopterygii at the ordinal level. While this does reflect the evolutionary relationships within the group, it also retains the rankings seen in the Linnaean classification as suggested by some scientists.[4] The evolutionary sequences are based from current phylogenetic work on the various subclades.[5][6][7][8][9][10]

Class Sarcopterygii Romer, 1955

See also

References

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  2. ^ Tudge C (2000). The variety of life. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-860426-6.
  3. ^ Heiser JB, Janis CM, Pough FH (2005). Vertebrate life. Pearson/Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-321-77336-4.
  4. ^ Nelson JS, Grande TC, Wilson MV (April 2016). Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
  5. ^ Crawford NG, Faircloth BC, McCormack JE, Brumfield RT, Winker K, Glenn TC (October 2012). "More than 1000 ultraconserved elements provide evidence that turtles are the sister group of archosaurs". Biology Letters. 8 (5): 783–6. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2012.0331. PMC 3440978. PMID 22593086.
  6. ^ Wang Z, Pascual-Anaya J, Zadissa A, Li W, Niimura Y, Huang Z, et al. (June 2013). "The draft genomes of soft-shell turtle and green sea turtle yield insights into the development and evolution of the turtle-specific body plan". Nature Genetics. 45 (6): 701–706. doi:10.1038/ng.2615. PMC 4000948. PMID 23624526.
  7. ^ McCormack JE, Harvey MG, Faircloth BC, Crawford NG, Glenn TC, Brumfield RT (2013). "A phylogeny of birds based on over 1,500 loci collected by target enrichment and high-throughput sequencing". PLOS ONE. 8 (1): e54848. arXiv:1210.1604. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...854848M. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0054848. PMC 3558522. PMID 23382987.
  8. ^ Kuhl H, Frankl-Vilches C, Bakker A, Mayr G, Nikolaus G, Boerno ST, et al. (January 2021). "An Unbiased Molecular Approach Using 3'-UTRs Resolves the Avian Family-Level Tree of Life". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38 (1): 108–127. doi:10.1093/molbev/msaa191. PMC 7783168. PMID 32781465.
  9. ^ May-Collado LJ, Kilpatrick CW, Agnarsson I (2015). "Mammals from 'down under': a multi-gene species-level phylogeny of marsupial mammals (Mammalia, Metatheria)". PeerJ. 3: e805. doi:10.7717/peerj.805. PMC 4349131. PMID 25755933.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  10. ^ Tarver JE, Dos Reis M, Mirarab S, Moran RJ, Parker S, O'Reilly JE, et al. (January 2016). "The Interrelationships of Placental Mammals and the Limits of Phylogenetic Inference". Genome Biology and Evolution. 8 (2): 330–44. doi:10.1093/gbe/evv261. PMC 4779606. PMID 26733575.
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