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Taxon: Order Amiiformes Huxley, 1861 - bowfins (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  (T.H. Huxley, 1861)
Original name:  Huxley, T.H. 1861. Mem. Geol. Surv. U.K. (Figs. Descripts. Illustr. Brit. Org. Remains) Decade X: 23 ("Subordo I. - Amiadæ"). ≡
Subsequent spelling (diff. rank):  Hay, O.P. 1929. Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ. (No. 390) 1: 709 ("Suborder ..., new name."). ≡
Incorrect (rank-group) authorship:  Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice Ittiol. Sicil.: 36 ("Ordine. Gli Amidi."). [family, nom. vernac.]. ≡

Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Amiidae (Family) Bonaparte, 1831
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Amioidei (Suborder) Ref: R. van der Laan, 2018: 57. [inferred]

Synonyms

Synonymous name: Halecomorphi (Order) Cope, 1872 Ref: R. Betancur-R et al., 2017: 13 ("extant").
Including: †Ionoscopiformes (Order) Grande & Bemis, 1998 Ref: R. van der Laan, 2018: 57. [inferred]

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: moddersnoeken Ref: B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: bowfins Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 125.
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