Category:Actinistia

Actinistia is a subclass of mostly fossil lobe-finned fishes. This subclass contains the coelacanths (Order Coelacanthiformes), including the two living species of coelacanths, both of the genus Latimeria: the West Indian Ocean coelacanth and the Indonesian coelacanth.

Taxonomy
Class Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fishes and tetrapods) Family Latimeriidae
 * Subclass Actinistia
 * Family Miguashaiidae (Devonian)
 * †Miguashaia
 * Family Diplocercidae (Devonian and Lower Carboniferous)
 * †Dictyonosteus
 * †Diplocercides (Nesides)
 * Family Hadronectoridae
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 * †Hadronector
 * †Holopterygius
 * †Lochmocercus
 * †Polyosteorhynchus
 * †Spermatodus
 * Family Rhabdodermatidae (Primarily Carboniferous)
 * †Caridosuctor
 * †Rhabdoderma
 * †Sassenia
 * Family Laugiidae (Lower Triassic to Lower Cretaceous)
 * †Coccoderma
 * †Laugia
 * †Trachymetopon
 * Order Coelacanthiformes (coelacanths)
 * †Family Whiteiidae
 * †Family Rebellatricidae
 * Suborder Latimerioidei
 * †Family Mawsoniidae