Avocettina

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Elopocephalai
Supercohors: Elopocephala
Cohors/Superordo: Elopomorpha
Ordo: Anguilliformes
Subordo: Nemichthyoidei

Familia: Nemichthyidae
Genus: Avocettina
Species (4): A. acuticeps – A. bowersii – A. infans – A. paucipora
Name

Avocettina Jordan & Davis, 1891: 655
Gender: feminine
Type species: Nemichthys infans Günther, 1878
Fixation: original designation

Synonymy

Avocettinops Roule & Bertin, 1924
Borodinula Whitley, 1931 [unneeded replacement name]

References

Jordan, D.S. & Davis, B.M. 1891: A preliminary review of the apodal fishes or eels inhabiting the waters of America and Europe. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Report of the Commissioner, 16 (for 1888) (9): 581–677, Pls. 73-80. BHL

Links

ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus
Avocettina species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Avocettina and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
ITIS

Avocettina is a genus of eels in the snipe-eel family Nemichthyidae. It currently contains the following species:

Avocettina acuticeps (Regan, 1916) (Southern snipe-eel)
Avocettina bowersii (Garman, 1899)
Avocettina infans (Günther, 1878) (Avocet snipe-eel)
Avocettina paucipora J. G. Nielsen & D. G. Smith, 1978

References

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Avocettina in FishBase. June 2011 version.

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