African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Leptocephalus Scopoli, 1777 (ex Gronow)

Deep-Sea name details

Leptocephalus Scopoli, 1777 (ex Gronow)

AphiaID

269654 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:269654)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (synonym)

Accepted name

Conger Bosc, 1817

Rank

Genus

Parent

Congrinae Kaup, 1856

Direct children (5)

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Species Leptocephalus giganteus Castle, 1959
Species Leptocephalus diptychus Eigenmann & Kennedy, 1901 accepted as Moringua edwardsi (Jordan & Bollman, 1889)
Species Leptocephalus grassii Eigenmann & Kennedy, 1902 accepted as Anguilla rostrata (Lesueur, 1817)
Species Leptocephalus mucronatus Eigenmann & Kennedy, 1902 accepted as Ophichthus cruentifer (Goode & Bean, 1896)
Species Leptocephalus proboscideus Lea, 1913 accepted as Dysommina proboscideus (Lea, 1913)

Environment

marine, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Leptocephalus Scopoli, 1777 (ex Gronow). Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=269654 on 2025-06-01

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Leptocephalus Scopoli, 1777 (ex Gronow). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=269654 on 2025-06-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-15 10:18:16Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

2013-01-04 15:09:25Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

2015-04-14 06:05:12Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

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taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Habitat Abyssopelagic [details]

Habitat Epipelagic [details]

Habitat Mesopelagic [details]

Habitat Bathypelagic [details]

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Leptocephalus)
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