Editing Protopterus (section)

{{Short description|Genus of Lungfish}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
| name = African lungfish
| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|83.6|0|earliest=99.7|ref=<ref>{{Cite web |title=Protopterus |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=91688&is_real_user=1 |access-date=2022-06-03 |website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref>}}
<small>[[Campanian]] to [[Holocene|present]]</small>
| image = Gőtehal-2.jpg
| image_caption = ''Protopterus annectens''
| parent_authority = [[Wilhelm Peters|Peters]], 1855
| taxon = Protopterus
| authority = [[Richard Owen|Owen]], 1839
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = *[[Marbled lungfish|''P. aethiopicus'']]<br/>
*[[Gilled lungfish|''P. amphibius'']]
*[[West African lungfish|''P. annectens'']]
*[[Spotted lungfish|''P. dolloi'']]
| range_map = Protopterus map.jpg
| synonyms = * ''Protomelus'' <small>Hogg 1841</small>
* ''Rhinocryptis'' <small>Peters 1844</small>
| synonyms_ref = <ref>{{cite journal | website=Collection of genus-group names in a systematic arrangement | title=Part 7- Vertebrates | url=http://mave.tweakdsl.nl/tn/genera7.html | display-authors=etal | access-date=30 June 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005114629/http://mave.tweakdsl.nl/tn/genera7.html | archive-date=5 October 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="mikko">{{cite web|website=Mikko's Phylogeny Archive|last=Haaramo|first=Mikko|year=2007|title=''Ceratodiformes – recent lungfishes'' |url=http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/deuterostoma/chordata/sarcopterygii/dipnomorpha/ceratodiformes.html |access-date= 3 July 2016}}</ref><ref name=FB>{{Cite web|last1=Froese|first1=R.|last2=Pauly|first2=D.|year=2017|title=Protopteridae |url=http://fishbase.org/Summary/FamilySummary.php?ID=552|website=[[FishBase]] version (02/2017)|access-date=18 May 2017}}</ref>
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'''''Protopterus''''' is the [[genus]] of four [[species]] of [[lungfish]] found in [[Africa]]. ''Protopterus'' is considered the [[monotypic|sole genus]] in the family '''Protopteridae''', which is  grouped with ''[[South American lungfish|Lepidosiren]]'' in the order [[Lepidosireniformes]].'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=ITIS - Report: Protopteridae |url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=161043#null |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=www.itis.gov}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=FAMILY Details for Protopteridae - African lungfishes |url=https://www.fishbase.se/summary/FamilySummary.php?ID=552 |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=www.fishbase.se}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last1=Van Der Laan |first1=Richard |last2=Eschmeyer |first2=William N. |last3=Fricke |first3=Ronald |date=2014-11-11 |title=Family-group names of Recent fishes |url=http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1 |journal=Zootaxa |volume=3882 |issue=1 |pages=1–230 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 |pmid=25543675 |issn=1175-5334|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Kemp |first1=Anne |last2=Cavin |first2=Lionel |last3=Guinot |first3=Guillaume |date=2017-04-01 |title=Evolutionary history of lungfishes with a new phylogeny of post-Devonian genera |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |language=en |volume=471 |pages=209–219 |bibcode=2017PPP...471..209K |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.12.051 |issn=0031-0182 |doi-access=free}}</ref>'''