Taxonomy Profile: Ophichthus (Ahl 1789)

Ophichthus: Taxonomy and Nomenclature
Kingdom:
Animalia
Taxonomic Rank:
Genus
Synonym(s):
Centrurophis
Kaup 1856
Scytalophis
Kaup 1856
Microdonophis
Kaup 1856
Common Name(s):
snake eels []
Taxonomic Status:
Current Standing:
valid
Data Quality Indicators:
Record Credibility Rating:
TWG standards met
Ophichthus: Taxonomic Hierarchy
Kingdom : Animalia
animals |
Animal |
animaux |
Subkingdom : Bilateria
Infrakingdom : Deuterostomia
Phylum : Chordata
chordates |
cordado |
cordés |
Subphylum : Vertebrata
vertebrates |
vertebrado |
vertébrés |
Infradivision : Gnathostomata
Superclass : Actinopterygii
ray-finned fishes |
spiny rayed fishes |
poisson épineux |
poissons à nageoires rayonnées |
Class : Teleostei
Superorder : Elopomorpha
Order : Anguilliformes
eels |
anguilles |
Suborder : Congroidei
Family : Ophichthidae
worm eels |
snake eels |
serpents de mer |
tiesos |
Subfamily : Ophichthinae
snake eels |
Tribe : Ophichthini
Genus : Ophichthus
snake eels |
Ophichthus Direct Children(s):
Ophichthus melanoporus
(Kanazawa 1963)
Ophichthus ophis
(Linnaeus 1758)
Ophichthus zophochir
(Jordan and Gilbert 1882)
Ophichthus rex
(Böhlke and Caruso 1980)
Ophichthus cruentifer
(Goode and Bean 1896)
Ophichthus rufus
(Rafinesque 1810)
Ophichthus cephalozona
(Bleeker 1864)
Ophichthus hyposagmatus
(McCosker and Böhlke 1984)
Ophichthus omorgmus
(McCosker and Böhlke 1984)
Ophichthus gomesii
(Castelnau 1855)
Ophichthus erabo
(Jordan and Snyder 1901)
Ophichthus regius
(Richardson 1848)
Ophichthus cylindroideus
(Ranzani 1839)
Ophichthus menezesi
(McCosker and Böhlke 1984)
Ophichthus spinicauda
(Norman 1922)
Ophichthus apachus
(McCosker and Rosenblatt 1998)
Ophichthus aphotistos
(McCosker and Chen 2000)
Ophichthus apicalis
(Anonymous [Bennett] 1830)
Ophichthus arneutes
(McCosker and Rosenblatt 1998)
Ophichthus asakusae
(Jordan and Snyder 1901)
Ophichthus brevicaudatus
(Chu Wu and Jin 1981)
Ophichthus celebicus
(Bleeker 1856)
Ophichthus echeloides
(D'Ancona 1928)
Ophichthus evermanni
(Jordan and Richardson 1909)
Ophichthus exourus
(McCosker 1999)
Ophichthus frontalis
(Garman 1899)
Ophichthus genie
(McCosker 1999)
Ophichthus grandoculis
(Cantor 1849)
Ophichthus karreri
(Blache 1975)
Ophichthus kunaloa
(McCosker 1979)
Ophichthus leonensis
(Blache 1975)
Ophichthus longipenis
(McCosker and Rosenblatt 1998)
Ophichthus macrochir
(Bleeker 1853)
Ophichthus macrops
(Günther 1910)
Ophichthus maculatus
(Rafinesque 1810)
Ophichthus madagascariensis
(Fourmanoir 1961)
Ophichthus manilensis
(Herre 1923)
Ophichthus marginatus
(Peters 1855)
Ophichthus mecopterus
(McCosker and Rosenblatt 1998)
Ophichthus megalops
(Asano 1987)
Ophichthus melope
(McCosker and Rosenblatt 1998)
Ophichthus mystacinus
(McCosker 1999)
Ophichthus remiger
(Valenciennes 1842)
Ophichthus roseus
(Tanaka 1917)
Ophichthus rotundus
(Lee and Asano 1997)
Ophichthus rugifer
(Jordan and Bollman 1890)
Ophichthus rutidoderma
(Bleeker 1853)
Ophichthus singapurensis
(Bleeker 1864-65)
Ophichthus tchangi
(Tang and Zhang 2002)
Ophichthus tetratrema
(McCosker and Rosenblatt 1998)
Ophichthus tsuchidae
(Jordan and Snyder 1901)
Ophichthus unicolor
(Regan 1908)
Ophichthus urolophus
(Temminck and Schlegel 1846)
Ophichthus fowleri
(Jordan and Evermann 1903)
Ophichthus: References
Expert(s):
Expert:
Wayne C. Starnes
Notes:
Research Curator of Fishes, North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Laboratory, 4301 Reedy Creek Rd., Raleigh, NC, 27607, USA
Reference for:
Ophichthus
Source(s):
Source:
NODC Taxonomic Code
Acquired:
1996-07-29
Notes:
Reference for:
Ophichthus
Source:
Catalog of Fishes, 13-May-2004
Acquired:
2004-05-13
Notes:
http://www.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/
Reference for:
Ophichthus
Publication(s):
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Eschmeyer, William N.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1990-01-01 / 1990-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Genera of Recent Fishes
Page(s):
iii + 697
Publisher:
California Academy of Sciences
Publication Place:
San Francisco, CA, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
0-940228-23-8/
Notes:
Reference for:
Ophichthus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Eschmeyer, William N., ed.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1998-01-01 / 1998-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Catalog of Fishes
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3
Page(s):
2905
Publisher:
California Academy of Sciences
Publication Place:
San Francisco, California, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
0-940228-47-5/
Notes:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/25622932
Reference for:
Ophichthus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Nelson, Joseph S.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1994-01-01 / 1994-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Fishes of the World, Third Edition
Page(s):
xvii + 600
Publisher:
John Wiley and Sons
Publication Place:
New York, New York, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
0-471-54713-1/
Notes:
Reference for:
Ophichthus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2003-12-31 / 2003-12-31
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
Page(s):
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/
Notes:
As-yet (2003) unpublished manuscript from 1998
Reference for:
Ophichthus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Böhlke, E. B., J. E. Böhlke, M. M. Leiby, J. E. McCosker, et al. / Böhlke, Eugenia B., ed.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1989-01-01 / 1989-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Fishes of the Western North Atlantic, no. 1, pt. 9, vol. 1
Page(s):
xvii + 1-656
Publisher:
Sears Foundation for Marine Research, Yale University
Publication Place:
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
0-935868-45-3/
Notes:
Reference for:
Ophichthus
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