Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Actinopterygii

Current position

Actinopteri ([unranked]) Cope, 1871

Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: fig. 7.7. [implicit]

Alternative positions

Actinopteri (Infraclass) Cope, 1871	Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: 391.
Actinopterygii (Subclass) Woodward, 1891
Chondrostei (Subclass) Müller, 1844	Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 90.
Chondrostei (Infraclass) Müller, 1844	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 601.
Osteichthyes (Class) Huxley, 1880	Ref: J.J. Sepkoski Jr., 2002: 306.
†Palaeoniscimorpha ([unranked])	Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: fig. 7.7. [indirect]

Historical positions

Chondrostei (Subclass) Müller, 1844	Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 90-91.
Actinopteri (Infraclass) Cope, 1871	Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: 391, fig. 7.7.
Osteichthyes (Class) Huxley, 1880	Ref: J.J. Sepkoski Jr., 2002: 306.
Actinopterygii (Class) Woodward, 1891	Ref: 1998
Chondrostei (Infraclass) Müller, 1844	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 601.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	†5f;7g;8s
1988	R.L. Carroll: 602	[; †29f]