Scolecenchelys

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: Myrophinae
Genus: Scolecenchelys
Species: S. acutirostris – S. aoki – S. australis – S. borealis – S. brevicaudata – S. breviceps – S. castlei – S. chilensis – S. cookei – S. fuscapenis – S. fuscogularis – S. godeffroyi – S. gymnota – S. hattae – S. iredalei – S. laticaudata – S. macroptera – S. nicholsae – S. profundorum – S. puhioilo – S. robusta – S. vermiformis – S. xorae

Name

• Scolecenchelys Ogilby, 1897: 246
  • Gender: feminine
  • Type species: Muraenichthys australis Macleay, 1881
    • Typification: original designation [also monotypic]

Synonyms

• Aotea Phillipps, 1926
• Myropterura Ogilby, 1897

References

Primary references

• Ogilby, J.D. 1897. Some new genera and species of fishes. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 22(2): 245–251. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Castle, P. H. J. & McCosker, J. E., 1999: A new genus and two new species of Myrophine worm-eels, with comments on Muraenichthys and Scolecenchelys (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae). Records of the Australian Museum, 51 (2-3): 113–122.
• Hibino, Y. & Kimura, S. 2015. Revision of the Scolecenchelys gymnota species group with descriptions of two new species (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae: Myrophinae). Ichthyological Research 63(1) [2016]: 1–22. DOI: 10.1007/s10228-015-0485-4Reference page. 
• McCosker, J. E., 1970: A review of the eel genera Leptenchelys and Muraenichthys, with the descriptions of a new genus, Schismorhynchus, and a new species Muraenichthys chilensis. Pacific Science, 24 (4): 506–516.
• Phillipps, W. J., 1926: New or rare fishes of New Zealand. Transactions New Zealand Institute, 56: 529–537.

Links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus
• Scolecenchelys species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Scolecenchelys 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