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: Nettastomatidae
Genus: Facciolella
Species (5): F. castlei – F. equatorialis – F. karrerae – F. oxyrhynchus – F. saurencheloides
Name
Facciolella Whitley, 1938: 197
Gender: feminine.
Type species: Nettastomella physonima Facciolà, 1914.
Fixation: type by being a replacement name.
Etymology: Luigi Facciolà (born 1851), Italian icthyologist.
Synonyms
Nettastomella Facciolà, 1911: 277
Gender: feminine.
Type species: Nettastomella physonima Facciolà, 1914.
Fixation: type by subsequent monotypy.
Etymology: diminutive of genus Nettastoma Rafinesque, 1810, sorcerer.
References
Primary references
Facciolà, L. 1911. Generi dei vertebrati ittioidi del mare di Messina. Bollettino della Società Zoologica Italiana, Serie II, 12: 268–287. BHL
Whitley, G.P. 1938. Studies in ichthyology. No. 11. Records of the Australian Museum, 20(3): 195–199, Pl. 21. Full text PDF
Links
Facciolella – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Facciolella 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.
Facciolella species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Facciolella is a genus of eels in the duckbill eel family Nettastomatidae.
Species
There are currently six recognized species in this genus:[1]
Facciolella castlei Parin & Karmovskaya, 1985
Facciolella equatorialis (C. H. Gilbert, 1891) (Dogface witch eel)
Facciolella gilbertii (Garman, 1899)
Facciolella karreri Klausewitz, 1995
Facciolella oxyrhyncha (Bellotti, 1883) (Facciola's sorcerer)
Facciolella saurencheloides (D'Ancona, 1928)
References
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Facciolella". FishBase. December 2012 version.
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