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: Congroidei
Familia: Ophichthidae
Subfamilia: Ophichthinae
Genus: Caecula
Species (1): C. pterygera
Name
Caecula Vahl, 1794: 149
Gender: feminine
Type species: Caecula pterygera Vahl, 1794
Fixation: subsequent designation by Jordan, 1917: 52 or Smith, 1965 [source: CoF (see link below)]
Synonymy
Sphagebranchus Bloch, 1795
References
Primary references
Vahl, M. 1794: Beskrivelse af en nye fiske-slaegt, Caecula. Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet Kiøbenhavn, 3 (2): 149–156.
Additional references
Böhlke, J.E. & McCosker, J.E. 1975: The status of the ophichthid eel genera Caecula Vahl and Sphagebranchus Bloch, and the description of a new genus and species from fresh waters in Brazil. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 127 (1): 1–11.
Jordan, D.S. 1917: The genera of fishes, from Linnaeus to Cuvier, 1758-1833, seventy-five years, with the accepted type of each. A contribution to the stability of scientific nomenclature. (Assisted by Barton Warren Evermann.). Leland Stanford Jr. University Publications, University Series, No. 27: 1–161. BHL
McCosker, J. E., Hatooka, K., Ohnishi, N. & Endo, H., 2011: Redescription and designation of a neotype for Aphthalmichthys kuro Kuroda 1947, and its placement in Callechelys (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae). Ichthyological Research, 58: 272–277. DOI: 10.1007/s10228-011-0233-3
Smith, J.L.B. 1965: The discovery in Mozambique of the little known eel Ophichthys tenuis Günther, 1870, a redescription of the type of Caecula pterygera Vahl, 1794, notes on other species and on generic relationships. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 13), 7 (84, for Dec. 1964): 711–723, Pls. 15-16.
Links
ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus
Caecula species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024. [species list needs updating]
Caecula 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 [species list needs updating]
Caecula is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. It currently contains the following species:
Caecula kuro (Nagamichi Kuroda, 1947)
Caecula pterygera Vahl, 1794 (Finny snake-eel)
References
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Caecula". FishBase. June 2011 version.
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