Life Pisces Sarcopterygii Lepidosireniformes Protopteridae

• Protopterus aethiopicus Heckel, 1851

  • Lepidosiren arnaudii Castelnau, 1855; (synonym)
  • P. a. congicus Gosse, 1984

    • Protopterus aethiopicus congicus Poll, 1961; (synonym)
  • P. a. mesmaekersi Gosse, 1984

    • Protopterus aethiopicus mesmaekersi Poll, 1961; (synonym)
• Protopterus amphibius Gosse, 1984

  • Rhinocryptis amphibia Peters, 1844; (valid as)
• Protopterus annectens Owen, 1839

  • Lepidosiren annectens Owen, 1839; (valid as)
  • Protomelus annectens Hogg, 1841; (valid as)
  • Protopterus anguilliformis Owen, 1841; (unavailable, in synonymy)
  • Protopterus rhinocryptis Gray, 1850; (unavailable, in synonymy)
  • Lepidosiren tobal Castelnau (ex Adanson), 1855; (synonym)
  • Protopterus annectens Gosse, 1984
  • P. a. brieni Gosse, 1984

    • Protopterus annectens brieni Poll, 1961; (synonym)
• Protopterus dolloi Boulenger, 1900

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  The taxonomic information and the basic database has been provided by; e-mail: Igor Sheremetyev; This is a conversion from a database dump, and there are probably many odd things as result of automatic conversion.