Cladistic classification of Sarcopterygii is the classication of Sarcopterygii as a clade containing not only the lobe-finned fishes (coelacanths and lungfish)...

are most closely related to lungfishes. Cladistically, this would make the tetrapods a subgroup of Sarcopterygii and thus sarcopterygians themselves. As...

inclusion of the smaller sub-class Sarcopterygii, Osteichthyes was regarded as paraphyletic. This has led to the current cladistic classification which splits...

traditional hymenopteran classification is faulty, by cladistic criteria, in the same way as pre-cladistic vertebrate classifications in which groups sharing...

species) Subclass Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish: 8 species) Superclass Tetrapoda (four-limbed vertebrates; 35,100+ species) (The classification below follows...

presents a cladistic view, i.e. that the terrestrial tetrapods evolved from lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii). Until recently, the view of most ichthyologists...

1962) – Classification of spine-possessing animals according to some authorities Tetrapoda are cladistically included within Sarcopterygii. Yang, Chuan;...

clade of lobe-finned fishes which includes the tetrapods and lungfishes. Rhipidistia formerly referred to a subgroup of Sarcopterygii consisting of the...

subclass of the class Amphibia, modern classification systems recognize that labyrinthodonts are not a formal natural group (clade) exclusive of other tetrapods...

definition is often supported by an equivalent cladistic definition. Cladistics is a modern branch of taxonomy which classifies organisms through evolutionary...