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Macropodinae  Liem, 1963
Taxonomic Serial No.: 638689

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Subfamily  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2004   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassActinopterygii  – ray-finned fishes, spiny rayed fishes, poisson épineux, poissons à nageoires rayonnées  
                      ClassTeleostei   
                         SuperorderAcanthopterygii   
                            OrderPerciformes  – perch-like fishes  
                               SuborderAnabantoidei  – labyrinthfishes  
                                  FamilyOsphronemidae Bleeker, 1859 – giant gouramis  
                                     SubfamilyMacropodinae Liem, 1963  
    Direct Children:  
                                        GenusBetta Bleeker, 1850 – fighting fishes, bettas 
                                        GenusMacropodus Lacepède, 1801  
                                        GenusMalpulutta Deraniyagala, 1937  
                                        GenusParosphromenus Bleeker, 1877  
                                        GenusPseudosphromenus Bleeker, 1879  
                                        GenusTrichopsis Canestrini, 1860 – purring gouramis, croaking gouramis 
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Britz, Ralf   
  Publication Date: 2001   
  Article/Chapter Title: The genus Betta - monophyly and intrarelationships, with remarks on the subfamilies Macropodinae and Luciocephalinae (Teleostei: Osphronemidae)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters   
  Page(s): 305-318   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0936-9902   
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  Reference for: Macropodinae   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: See Britz (2001) regarding Belontiidae versus Osphronemidae, and for discussions of the subgroups therein, as well as for comments noting an apparent homonymy between Liem's (1963) Macropodinae and the kangaroo (Mammalia) family Macropodidae Gray, 1821  
 

 

    


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