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: Callechelys
Species (16): C. bilinearis – C. bitaeniata – C. catostoma – C. cliffi – C. eristigma – C. galapagensis – C. guineensis – C. kuro – C. leucoptera – C. lutea – C. maculatus – C. marmorata – C. muraena – C. papulosa – C. randalli – C. springeri
Name
Callechelys Kaup, 1856: 51
Type species: Callechelys guichenoti Kaup, 1856
Synonyms
Cryptopterygium Ginsburg, 1951
References
Primary references
Kaup, J.J. 1856: Uebersicht der Aale. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 22 (1): 41–77. BHL
Additional references
Links
ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus
Callechelys species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Callechelys 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
Callechelys marmorata
Callechelys is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. It currently contains the following fifteen species:
Callechelys bilinearis Kanazawa, 1952 (twostripe snake eel)
Callechelys bitaeniata (W. K. H. Peters, 1877)
Callechelys catostoma (J. G. Schneider & J. R. Forster, 1801) (black-striped snake eel)
Callechelys cliffi J. E. Böhlke & Briggs, 1954 (sandy ridgefin eel)
Callechelys eristigma McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1972 (spotted ridgefin eel)
Callechelys galapagensis McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1972
Callechelys guineensis (Osório, 1893) (shorttail snake eel)
Callechelys leucoptera (Cadenat, 1954)
Callechelys lutea Snyder, 1904 (yellow-spotted snake eel)
Callechelys maculatus Y. T. Chu, H. L. Wu & X. B. Jin, 1981
Callechelys marmorata (Bleeker, 1853) (marbled snake eel)
Callechelys muraena D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1887 (blotched snake eel)
Callechelys papulosa McCosker, 1998
Callechelys randalli McCosker, 1998
Callechelys springeri (Ginsburg, 1951) (ridgefin eel)
References
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Callechelys". FishBase. June 2011 version.
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