WoRMS taxon details
Protanguillidae Johnson, Ida & Miya in Johnson, Ida, Sakaue, Sado, Asahida & Miya, 2011
AphiaID: 588637
AphiaID: 588637
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Anguilliformes (Order) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Family | ||||||||||
| Parent | Anguilliformes | ||||||||||
| Source |
original description: G. David Johnson, Hitoshi Ida, Jiro Sakaue, Tetsuya Sado, Takashi Asahida, and Masaki Miya (2011). A ‘living fossil’ eel (Anguilliformes: Protanguillidae, fam. nov.) from an undersea cave in Palau. Proc R Soc B, available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.1289 [details] | ||||||||||
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Protanguilla Johnson, Ida & Miya in Johnson, Ida, Sakaue, Sado, Asahida & Miya, 2011 Genus Protoanguilla accepted as Protanguilla Johnson, Ida & Miya in Johnson, Ida, Sakaue, Sado, Asahida & Miya, 2011 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:588637 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Protanguillidae. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/authority/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=588637 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||
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