Taxon profile

family

bowfins
Amiidae Bonaparte, 1831

kingdom Animalia - animals » phylum Chordata - chordates » class Actinopterygii - ray-finned fishes » order Amiiformes - bowfins

Temporal range:	Jurassic > Upper Jurassic – recent

Car

Cre

Pal

Pli

Ple

Hol

Included taxa

Number of records: 6

subfamily Amiinae

Fossil taxa

subfamily Amiopsinae ^†

subfamily Solnhofenamiinae ^†

subfamily Vidalamiinae ^†

genus Cratoamia Brito, Yabumoto & Grande, 2008 ^†

genus Nipponamia Yabumoto, 1994 ^† ^inc.sed.

Links and literature

AQUATAB. World Wide Web electronic publication [family/17]

Plíštil J. (Ed.) (2001-2025): AQUATAB. World Wide Web electronic publication [http://aquatab.net] [as Amiidae]
Data retrieved on: 17 January 2010

FishBase Family Summary [35]

FishBase Family Summary

The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [114281]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [https://www.irmng.org] [as Amiidae Bonaparte, 1837]
Data retrieved on: 4 April 2020

Hanel L., Novák J. (2001): České názvy živočichů V. Ryby a rybovití obratlovci (Pisces), 2. Nozdratí (Sarcopterygii), paprskoploutví (Actinopterygii) /mnohoploutví (Polypteriformes) – bezostní (Clupeiformes), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 64 pp. [as Amiidae]
Data retrieved on: 5 June 2013

Sheiko B.A. (2013): On family-group names of extant fishes and fish-like vertebrates of the world, Explorations of the fauna of the seas. St. Petersburg: Zoological Institute RAS. Vol. 74 (82). P. 1–204. [as Amiidae Bonaparte, 1831]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2019

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Data source info

Froese R., Pauly D. (eds.): FishBase
[Data retrieved on: 05 May 2007]

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