Whiteiidae
Sign in to saveWhiteiidae is an extinct family of prehistoric coelacanth fishes which lived during the Triassic period. Torino, Soto, and Perea (2021) did not support this clade as it was not found to be monophyletic in their analysis, however, Ferrante and Cavin (2025) found the family to be a valid clade.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Whiteiidae is referenced by 72 other articles, and connects out to Coelacanthiformes, Triassic and Sarcopterygii.
It sits within the topics Fossil taxa described in 1993, Prehistoric lobe-finned fish families and Triassic bony fish.
Its subject is documented across 4 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassCoelacanthi
- OrderCoelacanthiformes
- FamilyWhiteiidae
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- Parent taxon
- Coelacanthiformes
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Whiteiidae is an extinct family of prehistoric coelacanth fishes which lived during the Triassic period. Torino, Soto, and Perea (2021) did not support this clade as it was not found to be monophyletic in their analysis, however, Ferrante and Cavin (2025) found the family to be a valid clade.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Whiteiidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.