Taxonavigation
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Ophichthidae
Subfamilia: Ophichthinae
Genus: Apterichtus
Species:
A. anguiformis –
A. ansp –
A. australis –
A. caecus –
A. dunalailai –
A. equatorialis –
A. flavicaudus –
A. gracilis –
A. hatookai –
A. jeffwilliamsi –
A. kendalli –
A. klazingai –
A. malabar –
A. monodi –
A. moseri –
A. mysi –
A. nariculus –
A. orientalis –
A. succinus
Name
Apterichtus Duméril, 1805
- Type species: Caecilia branderiana Lacepède, 1800 (= Muraena caeca Linnaeus, 1758)
Etymology: a- (= without), and pteron (= fin), referring to absence of fins; ichtus, variant spelling of ichthys (= fish). (From The ETYFish Project).
Synonyms
- Branderius Rafinesque, 1815
- Caecilia Lacepède, 1800
- Ophisuraphis Kaup, 1856
- Ophisurapus Kaup, 1856
- Typhlotes Fischer, 1813
- Verma Jordan & Evermann, 1896
References
- Duméril, A.M.C. 1805. Zoologie analytique ou méthode naturelle de classification des animaux, rendue plus facile à l’aide de Tableaux synoptique. Allais, Paris. “1806” xxxii + [i] + 344 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.44835
. Reference page. - Hibino, Y., McCosker, J.E. & Kimura, S. 2016. A new species of Apterichtus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from the Marquesas Islands. Zootaxa 4117(1): 146–150. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4117.1.10. Reference page.
Links
- Apterichtus and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2022. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
- Apterichtus species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2022. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 06/2022.