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Squaliforma
| Description | Aphanotorulus is a genus of armored catfishes native to the Amazon, Orinoco, Essequibo and Jaguaribe basins in South America. They typically occur on a sand or gravel bottom in slow to moderately flowing rivers and streams, but some species occur in areas with fast current. The largest species in the genus reaches up to 51Â cm (20Â in) in standard length. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaliforma, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopterygii : Siluriformes : Loricariidae : Squaliforma | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Squaliforma Isbrücker & Michels, 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Name Published In | Isbrücker, I. J. H. & J. P. Michels in Isbrücker, I. J. H., I. Seidel, J. P. Michels, E. Schraml & A. Werner. 2001. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaliforma |
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Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Squaliforma annae species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Squaliforma biseriata species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Squaliforma emarginata species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Squaliforma gomesi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Squaliforma horrida species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Squaliforma phrixosoma species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Squaliforma scopularia species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Squaliforma squalina species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Squaliforma tenuicauda species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Squaliforma tenuis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Squaliforma villarsi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Squaliforma virescens species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
References
| Eschmeyer online (January 2010) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Eschmeyer online (Jun 2012) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| SN2000/Froese & Pauly, 1990-2005 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| FishBase - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2019). Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2019. - via World Register of Marine Species |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
