WoRMS taxon details
Pythonichthys macrurus (Regan, 1912)
282525 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:282525)
accepted
Species
Heterenchelys macrurus Regan, 1912 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Heterenchelys macrurus Regan, 1912) Regan, C. T. (1912). Description of two new eels from West Africa, belonging to a new genus and family. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 8).</em> v. 10 (no. 57): 323-324. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Pythonichthys macrurus (Regan, 1912). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=282525 on 2025-04-29
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Heterenchelys macrurus Regan, 1912) Regan, C. T. (1912). Description of two new eels from West Africa, belonging to a new genus and family. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 8).</em> v. 10 (no. 57): 323-324. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
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 Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Heterenchelys macrurus Regan, 1912)
To FishBase (from synonym Heterenchelys macrurus Regan, 1912)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Pythonichthys macrurus, Guinea-Bissau, by CIPA)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Heterenchelys macrurus Regan, 1912)
To FishBase (from synonym Heterenchelys macrurus Regan, 1912)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Pythonichthys macrurus, Guinea-Bissau, by CIPA)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
