Whiteia

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Whiteia
Temporal range: Triassic
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Whiteia woodwardi fossil
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinistia
Order: Coelacanthiformes
Family:† Whiteiidae
Genus:† Whiteia
Moy-Thomas, 1935
Type species
†Whiteia woodwardi
Moy-Thomas, 1935
Other species
  • †W. africana(Broom 1905)
  • †W. anniaeXu et al., 2025
  • †W.? banffensis(Lambe, 1916)
  • †W. giganteaBrownstein, 2023
  • †W. nielseniForey, 1998
  • †W. oishiiYabumoto & Brito, 2016
  • †W. tuberculataMoy-Thomas, 1935
  • †W. uyenoteruyaiYabumoto et al., 2019

Whiteia is an extinct genus of prehistoric coelacanth fish which lived during the Triassic period. [1] It is named after Errol White.

Taxonomy

The type species is Whiteia woodwardi from the Early Triassic of Madagascar. Other Early Triassic species are W. anniae [2] , W. tuberculata, W. uyenoteruyai (both Madagascar), W. nielseni (East Greenland), W.? banffensis (Alberta, Canada), W. africana (South Africa) and W. anniae (Anhui, China). [1] [3] Two species, W. oishii (West Timor, Indonesia) and W. gigantea (Texas, United States), are of Late Triassic age. [4] [5] [6]

The nominal species Coelacanthus evolutusBeltan, 1980 is a junior synonym of Whiteia woodwardi. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 Romano, Carlo; Koot, Martha B.; Kogan, Ilja; Brayard, Arnaud; Minikh, Alla V.; Brinkmann, Winand; Bucher, Hugo; Kriwet, Jürgen (2016). "Permian-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): diversity dynamics and body size evolution". Biological Reviews. 91 (1): 106–147. doi:10.1111/brv.12161. PMID   25431138. S2CID   5332637.
  2. ↑ Dai, Qing-Hua; Xu, Guang-Hui; Tan, Feng-Ting; Yuan, Zhi-Wei; Sun, Cheng-Kai; Liao, Jun-ling; Geng, Bing-He; Song, Hai-Jun (2025-10-17). "A new coelacanth (Actinistia, Sarcopterygii) from the Early Triassic of Anhui, China". Scientific Reports. 15 (1): 36320. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-20229-w. ISSN   2045-2322.
  3. ↑ Dai, Q.-H.; Xu, G.-H.; Tan, F.-T.; Yuan, Z.-W.; Sun, C.-K.; Liao, J.; Geng, B.-H.; Song, H.-J. (2025). "A new coelacanth (Actinistia, Sarcopterygii) from the Early Triassic of Anhui, China". Scientific Reports. 15 (1) 36320. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-20229-w . PMC   12534446 . PMID   41107359.
  4. ↑ Yabumoto, Yoshitaka; Brito, Paulo M. (2016). "A New Triassic Coelacanth, Whiteia oishii (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) from West Timor, Indonesia". Paleontological Research. 20 (3): 233–246. Bibcode:2016PalRe..20..233Y. doi: 10.2517/2015PR033 . S2CID   133276263.
  5. ↑ Yabumoto, Yoshitaka; Brito, Paulo M.; Iwata, Masamitsu; Abe, Yoshitaka (2019). "A new Triassic coelacanth, Whiteia uyenoteruyai (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) from Madagascar and paleobiogeography of the family Whiteiidae". Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History Series A (Natural History). 17: 15–28.
  6. ↑ Brownstein, Chase D. (2023). "A large coelacanth, †Whiteia giganteus sp. nov., from the Triassic of Texas, USA, establishes a Pangean radiation of early Mesozoic actinistians" (PDF). Palaeontologia Electronica. 26 (1): a9.
  7. ↑ Forey, Peter L. (1998). History of the coelacanth fishes. London: Chapman & Hall. p. 434. ISBN   9780412784804..


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