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Branch-based clade: Caimaninae Brochu 1999 (reptile)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Crocodylia

Phylogeny

Branch-based clade Ref: C.A. Brochu, 1999: 66.

Defined by included taxon (and all taxa more closely related to it than to the excluded taxon)

Caiman crocodilus (Linnaeus, 1758) Ref: C.A. Brochu, 1999: 66.

Defined by excluded taxon

Alligator mississippiensis (Daudin, 1802) Ref: C.A. Brochu, 1999: 66.

Current position

Alligatoridae (Clade) Cuvier 1807 {Brochu 2003} Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: fig. 1.

Historical positions

Alligatoridae (Clade) Cuvier 1807 {Brochu 2003} Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: table 1 (p. 360), figs. 1, 4.
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