Letharchus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Congroidei

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 Subordo: Congroidei

Familia: Ophichthidae
Subfamilia: Ophichthinae
Genus: Letharchus
Species (3): L. aliculatus – L. rosenblatti – L. velifer

Name

• Letharchus Goode & Bean, 1882: 436
  • Gender: masculine
  • Type species: Letharchus velifer Goode & Bean, 1882
    • Fixation: monotypy

Synonymy

• Letharcus Goode & Bean, 1882 [misspelling in original publication, corrected in erratum]

References

Primary references

• Goode, G.B. & Bean, T.H. 1882: Descriptions of twenty-five new species of fish from the southern United States, and three new genera, Letharcus, Ioglossus, and Chriodorus. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 5 (297): 412–437. BHL

Additional references

• McCosker, J.E. 1974: A revision of the ophichthid eel genus Letharchus. Copeia, 1974 (3): 619–629.

Links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus
• Letharchus species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Letharchus and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• ITIS