WoRMS taxon details
Hoplunnis macrura Ginsburg, 1951
275444 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:275444)
accepted
Species
Hoplunnis macrurus Ginsburg, 1951 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Ginsburg, I. (1951). The eels of the northern Gulf Coast of the United States and some related species. <em>Texas Journal of Science.</em> 3 (3): 431-485. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Hoplunnis macrura Ginsburg, 1951. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=275444 on 2026-01-15
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Nomenclature
original description
Ginsburg, I. (1951). The eels of the northern Gulf Coast of the United States and some related species. <em>Texas Journal of Science.</em> 3 (3): 431-485. [details]
original description (of Hoplunnis macrurus Ginsburg, 1951) Ginsburg, I. (1951). The eels of the northern Gulf Coast of the United States and some related species. <em>Texas Journal of Science.</em> 3 (3): 431-485. [details]
original description (of Hoplunnis macrurus Ginsburg, 1951) Ginsburg, I. (1951). The eels of the northern Gulf Coast of the United States and some related species. <em>Texas Journal of Science.</em> 3 (3): 431-485. [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
context source (Deepsea)
Natural History Museum, London (NHM): Collections Management Database System. [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
Present
Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Hoplunnis macrurus Ginsburg, 1951)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hoplunnis macrura)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Hoplunnis macrurus Ginsburg, 1951)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 11 proteins) (from synonym Hoplunnis macrurus Ginsburg, 1951)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Hoplunnis macrura P13099 illustration)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Hoplunnis macrurus Ginsburg, 1951)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hoplunnis macrura)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Hoplunnis macrurus Ginsburg, 1951)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 11 proteins) (from synonym Hoplunnis macrurus Ginsburg, 1951)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Hoplunnis macrura P13099 illustration)
To ITIS