Concise hierarchy

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

Current position

Actinopteri ([unranked]) Cope, 1871

Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: 391. [implicit]

Alternative positions

Actinopteri (Infraclass) Cope, 1871	Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: 391.
Actinopterygii (Class) Woodward, 1891	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988 [indirect]
Chondrostei (Infraclass) Müller, 1844	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 602.
Osteichthyes (Class) Huxley, 1880	Ref: J.J. Sepkoski Jr., 2002: 307.

Historical positions

Chondrostei (Subclass) Müller, 1844	Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 95. [by reference] [implicit]
Actinopteri (Infraclass) Cope, 1871	Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: 391, fig. 7.7.
Osteichthyes (Class) Huxley, 1880	Ref: J.J. Sepkoski Jr., 2002: 307.
Actinopterygii (Class) Woodward, 1891	Ref: 1998
Chondrostei (Infraclass) Müller, 1844	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 602.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	†3f;3g
1988	R.L. Carroll: 602	[; †2f]