Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
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: Anguilloidei
Familia: Chlopsidae
Genus: Chilorhinus
Species (2): C. platyrhynchus – C. suensonii
Name
Chilorhinus Lütken, 1852: 16.
Gender: masculine.
Type species: Chilorhinus suensonii Lütken, 1852.
Fixation: type by monotypy.
Synonyms
Brachyconger Norman, 1922: 217.
Gender: masculine.
Type species: Brachyconger platyrhynchus Norman,1922
Fixation: type by monotypy.
Endeconger Jordan, 1923: 131.
Gender: masculine.
Type species: Brachyconger platyrhynchus Norman,1922.
Fixation: type by being a replacement name.
References
Primary references
Lütken, C.F. 1852 Nogle bemaerkinger om naeseborenes stilling hos de i gruppe med Ophisurus staaende slaegter af aalefamilien. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn, aaret 1851(nos 1-2): 1–21. BHL
Norman, J.R. 1922. Two new fishes from New Britain and Japan. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (Ninth Series) 10(56): 217–218. BHL
Jordan, D.S. 1923. A classification of fishes including families and genera as far as known. Stanford University Publications, University Series, Biological Sciences, 3(2): 77–243 + i–x.
Links
Chilorhinus Lütken, 1852 – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Chilorhinus and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2021. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Chilorhinus species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2021. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2021.
Chilorhinus is a small genus of eels of the family Chlopsidae that occurs in tropical waters. It contains these two described species:
C. platyrhynchus (Norman, 1922) (flatnose xenocongrid eel)
C. suensonii Lütken, 1852 (seagrass eel)
References
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Chilorhinus in FishBase. June 2011 version.
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