Actinopteri

Actinopteri
Atlantic sturgeon (Chondrostei)
Atlantic salmon (Neopterygii)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
(unranked): Actinopteri
Cope, 1871
Subclasses

Actinopteri (/æktɪˈnɒptər/) is the sister group of Cladistia (bichirs) in the class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fish).

Dating back to the Permian period, the Actinopteri comprise the Chondrostei (sturgeons and paddlefish), the Holostei (bowfins and gars), and the teleosts; in other words, all extant ray-finned fish other than the bichirs.

In this clade the lungs have evolved into a swim bladder.[1]

Characters of Actinopteri include [2] paired fin structure, a single dorsal fin, fulcra, a large median gular and numerous branchiostegals, ganoid scales, and a valvula cerebelli in the brain.

  1. ^ Funk, Emily; Lencer, Ezra; McCune, Amy (September 2020). "Dorsoventral inversion of the air-filled organ (lungs, gas bladder) in vertebrates: RNA-sequencing of laser capture microdissected embryonic tissue". Journal of Experimental Zoology. Part B, Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 334 (6): 325–338. Bibcode:2020JEZB..334..325F. doi:10.1002/jez.b.22998. PMC 8094346. PMID 32864827.
  2. ^ Patterson, Colin (1982). "Morphology and Interrelationships of Primitive Actinopterygian Fishes". American Zoologist. 22 (241): 241–259. doi:10.1093/icb/22.2.241.