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Facts and Thoughts on Piscine Phylogeny

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Evolutionary Biology of Primitive Fishes

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Abstract

Craniate animals, it is estimated, are represented today by some 50,000 species, about half of which constitute the piscine world. Their fossil record extends back to the Upper Cambrian. Although craniate animals have many forms and shapes, they are readily subdivided into ten large groups: osteolepipods, urodelomorphs, struniiforms, actinopterygians, brachiopterygians, coelacanthiforms, dipnoans, elasmobranchiomorphs, pteraspidomorphs, and cephalaspidomorphs (Fig. 1).

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Bjerring, H.C. (1985). Facts and Thoughts on Piscine Phylogeny. In: Foreman, R.E., Gorbman, A., Dodd, J.M., Olsson, R. (eds) Evolutionary Biology of Primitive Fishes. NATO ASI Series, vol 103. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9453-6_3

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