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Echelus Rafinesque, 1810 
AphiaID: 125646

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Anguilliformes (Order) > Ophichthidae (Family) > Ophichthinae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Ophichthinae
Synonymised
taxa
  Myrus
Sources  basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

from synonym: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa

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 Species Echelus myrus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Echelus pachyrhynchus (Vaillant, 1888)
Species Echelus uropterus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)

Species Echelus caudilimbatus Poey, 1867 accepted as Paraconger caudilimbatus (Poey, 1867)
Species Echelus ciuciara Rafinesque, 1810 accepted as Ariosoma balearicum (Delaroche, 1809)
Species Echelus microchir Bleeker, 1864 accepted as Myrophis microchir (Bleeker, 1864)
Species Echelus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1810 accepted as Ophisurus serpens (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Echelus punctatus Rafinesque, 1810 accepted as Echelus myrus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Echelus rufus Rafinesque, 1810 accepted as Ophichthus rufus (Rafinesque, 1810)
Environment marine
Link To GenBank
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125646
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2006-09-11 06:44:08Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2013-01-04 15:09:25Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Echelus Rafinesque, 1810. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125646 on 2013-05-21
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