WoRMS taxon details
Apterichtus equatorialis (Myers & Wade, 1941)
271923 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:271923)
accepted
Species
Apterichtus gymnocelus (Böhlke, 1953) · unaccepted
Caecula equatorialis Myers & Wade, 1941 · unaccepted
Caecula gymnocelus Böhlke, 1953 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Caecula equatorialis Myers & Wade, 1941) Myers, G. S.; Wade, C. B. (1941). Four new genera and ten new species of eels from the Pacific coast of tropical America. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expedition 1932-40, Los Angeles.</em> 9 (4): 65-111, Pls. 7-16. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Apterichtus equatorialis (Myers & Wade, 1941). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=271923 on 2025-11-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Caecula equatorialis Myers & Wade, 1941) Myers, G. S.; Wade, C. B. (1941). Four new genera and ten new species of eels from the Pacific coast of tropical America. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expedition 1932-40, Los Angeles.</em> 9 (4): 65-111, Pls. 7-16. [details]
original description (of Caecula gymnocelus Böhlke, 1953) Böhlke, J. E. (1953). Description of a new finless ophichthid eel from the Gulf of California. <em>Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science.</em> v. 56 (no. 3): 325-329. [details]
original description (of Caecula gymnocelus Böhlke, 1953) Böhlke, J. E. (1953). Description of a new finless ophichthid eel from the Gulf of California. <em>Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science.</em> v. 56 (no. 3): 325-329. [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 Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Apterichtus gymnocelus (Böhlke, 1953))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Caecula gymnocelus Böhlke, 1953)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Caecula equatorialis Myers & Wade, 1941)
To FishBase (from synonym Caecula gymnocelus Böhlke, 1953)
To FishBase (from synonym Caecula equatorialis Myers & Wade, 1941)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Apterichtus gymnocelus (Böhlke, 1953))
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Apterichtus gymnocelus (Böhlke, 1953))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Caecula gymnocelus Böhlke, 1953)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Caecula equatorialis Myers & Wade, 1941)
To FishBase (from synonym Caecula gymnocelus Böhlke, 1953)
To FishBase (from synonym Caecula equatorialis Myers & Wade, 1941)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Apterichtus gymnocelus (Böhlke, 1953))
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
