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: Kaupichthys
Species (6): K. atronasus – K. brachychirus – K. diodontus – K. hyoproroides – K. japonicus – K. nuchalis
Name
Kaupichthys Schultz, 1943: 50.
Gender: masculine.
Type species: Kaupichthys diodontus Schultz, 1943.
Fixation: type by original designation (also monotypic).
Etymology: Johann Jakob Kaup (1803–1873) German zoologist, systematist; Gr. ιχθύς ichthýs "fish".
References
Primary references
Shultz, L.P. 1943. Fishes of the Phoenix and Samoan islands collected in 1939 during the expedition of the U. S. S. "Bushnell.". Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 180: i–x + 1–316. BHL
Links
Kaupichthys Schultz, 1943 – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Kaupichthys 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.
Kaupichthys species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2021. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2021.
Kaupichthys is a genus of eels of the family Chlopsidae.
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]
Kaupichthys atronasus L. P. Schultz, 1953 (black-nostril false moray)
Kaupichthys brachychirus L. P. Schultz, 1953 (shortfin false moray)
Kaupichthys diodontus L. P. Schultz, 1943 (common false moray)
Kaupichthys hyoproroides (Strömman, 1896) (false moray)
Kaupichthys japonicus Matsubara & Asano, 1960
Kaupichthys nuchalis J. E. Böhlke, 1967 (collared eel)
References
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Kaupichthys in FishBase. December 2012 version.
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