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Polypteridae
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Dataset
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GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
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Rank
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FAMILY
Classification
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kingdom
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Animalia
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phylum
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Chordata
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order
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Polypteriformes
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family
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Polypteridae
Name
- Homonyms
- Polypteridae
- Common names
- bichir in English
- bichirs in English
- bichirs in language.
- birchers in English
- lobed-finned pike in English
- reed fishes in English
- bikirfamilien in Norwegian Bokmål
- bichirs in English
- kwastsnoeken in Dutch
Bibliographic References
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Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
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Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version.
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FishBase
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Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2022). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2022.
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Gosse, J.-P. / Lévêque, C., D. Paugy, and G. G. Teugels, eds., 1990: Chapter 5: Polypteridae. The Fresh and Brackish Water Fishes of West Africa, vol. 1. 79-87.
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Nelson, Joseph S., 1994: null. Fishes of the World, Third Edition. xvii + 600.
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Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
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Riehl, R., and H. A. Baensch, 1989: null. Aquarium Atlas. 992.
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Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3882(1): 1-230.