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Sistergroup of sarcopterygians, include all ray-finned fishes, i.e., bichirs (Polypterus) and the reedfish (Calamoichthys), together forming the cladistians, the sturgeons (chondrosteans) the gars (Lepisosteus; ginglymodes) and the bowfin (Amia; halecomorphs), as well as the manifold modern ray-finned fishes, the teleosts.
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(2008). Actinopterygians. In: Binder, M.D., Hirokawa, N., Windhorst, U. (eds) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_53
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