Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anguilliformes 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Elopocephalai
Supercohors: Elopocephala
Cohors/Superordo: Elopomorpha
Ordo: Anguilliformes

Familia: Protanguillidae
Genus: Protanguilla
Species (1): P. palau

Name

Protanguilla Johnson, Ida & Miya, 2012

  • Gender: [feminine]
  • Type species: Protanguilla palau Johnson, Ida & Sakaue, 2012
    • Fixation: original designation [see p. 936] [and monotypy]

Note: Appeared first as Protoanguilla in electronic version (not nomenclaturally available, also would have been preoccupied) name changed to Protanguilla in hard copy version. Name changed because †Protoanguilla is preoccupied in fossil eels.

Etymology: From the Greek protos, first, and the Latin anguilla, eel, in reference to the early divergence of the genus among anguilliforms.

References

Primary references

Additional references

  • Springer, V.G. & Johnson, G.D. 2015. The Gill-Arch Musculature of Protanguilla, the Morphologically Most Primitive Eel (Teleostei: Anguilliformes), Compared with That of Other Putatively Primitive Extant Eels and Other Elopomorphs. Copeia 103(3): 595–620. DOI: 10.1643/CI-14-152 Reference page. 
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