Whiteia

Whiteia; Temporal range:
	Whiteia woodwardi fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinistia
Order:	Coelacanthiformes
Family:	†Whiteiidae
Genus:	†Whiteia; Moy-Thomas, 1935
Type species
	†Whiteia woodwardi; Moy-Thomas, 1935
Other species
	†W. africana (Broom 1905); †W. anniae Xu et al., 2025; †W.? banffensis (Lambe, 1916); †W. gigantea Brownstein, 2023; †W. nielseni Forey, 1998; †W. oishii Yabumoto & Brito, 2016; †W. tuberculata Moy-Thomas, 1935; †W. uyenoteruyai Yabumoto et al., 2019;

Whiteia is an extinct genus of prehistoric coelacanth fish which lived during the Triassic period.^[1] It is named after Errol White.

Taxonomy

The type species is Whiteia woodwardi from the Early Triassic of Madagascar. Other Early Triassic species are W. anniae,^[2] W. tuberculata, W. uyenoteruyai (both Madagascar), W. nielseni (East Greenland), W.? banffensis (Alberta, Canada), W. africana (South Africa) and W. anniae (Anhui, China).^[1]^[3] Two species, W. oishii (West Timor, Indonesia) and W. gigantea (Texas, United States), are of Late Triassic age.^[4]^[5]^[6]

The nominal species Coelacanthus evolutus Beltan, 1980 is a junior synonym of Whiteia woodwardi.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b Romano, Carlo; Koot, Martha B.; Kogan, Ilja; Brayard, Arnaud; Minikh, Alla V.; Brinkmann, Winand; Bucher, Hugo; Kriwet, Jürgen (2016). "Permian-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): diversity dynamics and body size evolution". Biological Reviews. 91 (1): 106–147. doi:10.1111/brv.12161. PMID 25431138. S2CID 5332637.
^ Dai, Qing-Hua; Xu, Guang-Hui; Tan, Feng-Ting; Yuan, Zhi-Wei; Sun, Cheng-Kai; Liao, Jun-ling; Geng, Bing-He; Song, Hai-Jun (2025-10-17). "A new coelacanth (Actinistia, Sarcopterygii) from the Early Triassic of Anhui, China". Scientific Reports. 15 (1): 36320. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-20229-w. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 12534446.
^ Dai, Q.-H.; Xu, G.-H.; Tan, F.-T.; Yuan, Z.-W.; Sun, C.-K.; Liao, J.; Geng, B.-H.; Song, H.-J. (2025). "A new coelacanth (Actinistia, Sarcopterygii) from the Early Triassic of Anhui, China". Scientific Reports. 15 (1) 36320. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-20229-w. PMC 12534446. PMID 41107359.
^ Yabumoto, Yoshitaka; Brito, Paulo M. (2016). "A New Triassic Coelacanth, Whiteia oishii (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) from West Timor, Indonesia". Paleontological Research. 20 (3): 233–246. Bibcode:2016PalRe..20..233Y. doi:10.2517/2015PR033. S2CID 133276263.
^ Yabumoto, Yoshitaka; Brito, Paulo M.; Iwata, Masamitsu; Abe, Yoshitaka (2019). "A new Triassic coelacanth, Whiteia uyenoteruyai (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) from Madagascar and paleobiogeography of the family Whiteiidae". Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History Series A (Natural History). 17: 15–28.
^ Brownstein, Chase D. (2023). "A large coelacanth, †Whiteia giganteus sp. nov., from the Triassic of Texas, USA, establishes a Pangean radiation of early Mesozoic actinistians" (PDF). Palaeontologia Electronica. 26 (1): a9.
^ Forey, Peter L. (1998). History of the coelacanth fishes. London: Chapman & Hall. p. 434. ISBN 9780412784804..

[Romano_et_al_2016-1] Romano, Carlo; Koot, Martha B.; Kogan, Ilja; Brayard, Arnaud; Minikh, Alla V.; Brinkmann, Winand; Bucher, Hugo; Kriwet, Jürgen (2016). "Permian-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): diversity dynamics and body size evolution". Biological Reviews. 91 (1): 106–147. doi:10.1111/brv.12161. PMID 25431138. S2CID 5332637.

[2] Dai, Qing-Hua; Xu, Guang-Hui; Tan, Feng-Ting; Yuan, Zhi-Wei; Sun, Cheng-Kai; Liao, Jun-ling; Geng, Bing-He; Song, Hai-Jun (2025-10-17). "A new coelacanth (Actinistia, Sarcopterygii) from the Early Triassic of Anhui, China". Scientific Reports. 15 (1): 36320. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-20229-w. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 12534446.

[3] Dai, Q.-H.; Xu, G.-H.; Tan, F.-T.; Yuan, Z.-W.; Sun, C.-K.; Liao, J.; Geng, B.-H.; Song, H.-J. (2025). "A new coelacanth (Actinistia, Sarcopterygii) from the Early Triassic of Anhui, China". Scientific Reports. 15 (1) 36320. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-20229-w. PMC 12534446. PMID 41107359.

[4] Yabumoto, Yoshitaka; Brito, Paulo M. (2016). "A New Triassic Coelacanth, Whiteia oishii (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) from West Timor, Indonesia". Paleontological Research. 20 (3): 233–246. Bibcode:2016PalRe..20..233Y. doi:10.2517/2015PR033. S2CID 133276263.

[5] Yabumoto, Yoshitaka; Brito, Paulo M.; Iwata, Masamitsu; Abe, Yoshitaka (2019). "A new Triassic coelacanth, Whiteia uyenoteruyai (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) from Madagascar and paleobiogeography of the family Whiteiidae". Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History Series A (Natural History). 17: 15–28.

[6] Brownstein, Chase D. (2023). "A large coelacanth, †Whiteia giganteus sp. nov., from the Triassic of Texas, USA, establishes a Pangean radiation of early Mesozoic actinistians" (PDF). Palaeontologia Electronica. 26 (1): a9.

[7] Forey, Peter L. (1998). History of the coelacanth fishes. London: Chapman & Hall. p. 434. ISBN 9780412784804..

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