懷特魚屬(屬名:Whiteia,得名自發現化石的地質學家艾羅·懷特)是已滅絕的腔棘魚目肉鰭魚類,也是懷特魚科的模式屬,生存於三疊紀後期,在腔棘魚中具有相對較大的頭部,吻部也較窄長。本屬包含六個物種,全長介於7至49公分[2],化石發現於格陵蘭、加拿大、南非、馬達加斯加與東南亞的帝汶島[3][4][5][6]。
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沃氏懷特魚結核化石
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科學分類
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界:
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動物界 Animalia
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門:
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脊索動物門 Chordata
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腔棘魚綱 Coelacanthimorpha
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腔棘魚目 Coelacanthiformes
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†懷特魚科 Whiteiidae
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†懷特魚屬 Whiteia Moy-Thomas, 1935
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模式種
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沃氏懷特魚 Whiteia woodwardi
Moy-Thomas, 1935
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- 非洲懷特魚 W. africanus (Broom, 1905)
- 尼氏懷特魚 W. nielseni Forey, 1998
- 大石氏懷特魚 W. oishii Yabumoto & Brito, 2016
- 疣鱗懷特魚 W. tuberculata Moy-Thomas, 1935
- 沃氏懷特魚 W. woodwardi Moy-Thomas, 1935
- 上野氏懷特魚 W. uyenoteruyai Yabumoto et al., 2019
以下演化樹節錄自古生物學家帕布羅·托里尼歐(Pablo Toriño)等人於2021年的研究[1]:
Toriño, P. A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of coelacanth fishes (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) with comments on the composition of the Mawsoniidae and Latimeriidae: evaluating old and new methodological challenges and constraints. Historical Biology. 2021,. in press. ISSN 1029-2381. doi:10.1080/08912963.2020.1867982.
Yabumoto, Y.; Brito, P. M. A new Triassic coelacanth, Whiteia oishii (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) from West Timor, Indonesia. Paleontological Research. 2016, 20 (3): 233–246. ISSN 1342-8144. doi:10.2517/2015PR033.
Beltan, L. Overview of the systematics, paleobiology, and paleoecology of Triassic fishes of northwestern Madagascar. Mesozoic Fishes — Systematics and Paleoecology. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil. 1996: 479–500. ISBN 978-3-923871-90-2.