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: Echiophis
Species (4): E. brunneus – E. creutzbergi – E. intertinctus – E. punctifer
Name
Echiophis Kaup, 1856: 46
Gender: masculine
Type species: Ophisurus intertinctus Richardson, 1848
Fixation: monotypy
References
Primary references
Kaup, J.J. 1856: Uebersicht der Aale. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 22 (1): 41–77. BHL
Additional references
Links
ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus
Echiophis species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Echiophis 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
Vernacular names
English: Spoon-nose eels
Echiophis is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. It currently contains the following species:
Echiophis brunneus (Castro-Aguirre & Suárez de los Cobos, 1983) (Pacific spoon-nose eel)
Echiophis intertinctus (J. Richardson, 1848) (Spotted spoon-nose eel)
Echiophis punctifer (Kaup, 1860) (Stippled spoon-nose eel)
References
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Echiophis". FishBase. June 2011 version.
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