Comment | Type species: Ecpleopus gaudichaudii is the type species of the genus Ecpleopus DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839. Ecpleopus is the type genus for the subfamily Ecpleopinae (Castoe et al. 2004; Pyron et al. 2013), or the tribus Ecpleopodini Fitzinger, 1843.
For diagnostic morphological characters distinguishing Marinussaurus, Amapasaurus, Anotosaura, Arthrosaura, Colobosauroides, Dryadosaura,Ecpleopus, Kaieteurosaurus, Leposoma, and Pantepuisaurus see Table 2 in PELOSO et al. 2011.
Taxonomy: Fitzinger (1843) formed the family name Ecpleopoda and subsequent uses and spellings included Ecpleopoda (e.g., Tschudi 1847), Ecpleopidae (Cope 1864), Ecpleopodidae (Cope 1868;1875), Ecpleopinae (Castoe et al. 2004; Pyron et al. 2013), Ecpleopini (Pellegrino et al. 2001), Ecpleopodinae (Rodrigues et al. 2009b) and Ecpleopodini (Peloso et al. 2011). Colli et al. 2015 renamed and included Pantepuisaurus in the subfamily Ecpleopodinae. |
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