Rhipidistia

Translingual

Etymology

New Latin, from Ancient Greek ῥιπίδιον (rhipídion, “small bellows”)

Proper noun

Rhipidistia

1. A taxonomic clade within the superclass Sarcopterygii – lobe-finned fishes that are the ancestors of all tetrapods and of lungfish.

Hypernyms

• (clade): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Sarcopterygii - superclass; Crossopterygii - infraclass

Hyponyms

• (clade): Dipnomorpha, Tetrapodomorpha - clades

References

• Rhipidistia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rhipidistia at Paleobiology Database
• Rhipidistia at Palaeos