Lumiconger

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: Congridae
Subfamilia: Congrinae
Genus: Lumiconger

Species (1): L. arafura

Name

• Lumiconger Castle & Paxton, 1984: 73.
  • Gender: masculine.
  • Type species: Lumiconger arafura Castle & Paxton, 1984.
    • Fixation: type by original designation (also monotypic).
• Etymology: L. lumen, luminis "light"; conger "conger".

References

Primary references

• Castle, P.H.J. & Paxton J.R. 1984. A new genus and species of luminescent eel (Pisces: Congridae) from the Arafura Sea, northern Australia. Copeia 1984(1): 72–81. JSTOR

Links

• Lumiconger Castle and Paxton, 1984 – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Lumiconger 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.
• Lumiconger species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.