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: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors/Superordo: Protacanthopterygii
Ordo: Argentiniformes
Subordo: Argentinoidei
Superfamilia: Alepocephaloidea
Familia: Alepocephalidae
Genus: Leptoderma
Species: L. affinis – L. lubricum – L. macrophthalmum – L. macrops – L. ospesca – L. retropinna
Name
Leptoderma Vaillant, 1886: 1239
Type species: Leptoderma macrops Vaillant, 1886. Type by monotypy.
References
Vaillant, L.L. 1886: Considèrations sur les poissons des grandes profondeurs, en particulier sur ceux qui appartiennent au sous-ordre des Abdominales. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, 103: 1237–1239.
Byrkjedal, I.; Poulsen, J.Y.; Galbraith, J. 2011: Leptoderma macrophthalmum n. sp., a new species of smooth-head (Otocephala: Alepocephalidae) from the Mid Atlantic Ridge. Zootaxa, 2876: 49–56. Preview PDF
Vernacular names
English: Smooth-head Eels
Leptoderma is a genus of slickheads found in the deep waters of the oceans.
Species
There are currently 6 recognized species in this genus:[1]
Leptoderma affinis Alcock, 1899 (Eel slickhead)
Leptoderma lubricum T. Abe, Marumo & Kawaguchi, 1965
Leptoderma macrophthalmum Byrkjedal, J. Y. Poulsen & J. K. Galbraith, 2011
Leptoderma macrops Vaillant, 1886 (Grenadier smooth-head)
Leptoderma ospesca Angulo, C. C. Baldwin & D. R. Robertson, 2016 (Eastern eel-slickhead)[2]
Leptoderma retropinna Fowler, 1943
References
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Leptoderma in FishBase. February 2012 version.
Angulo, A., Baldwin, C.C. & Robertson, D.R. (2016): A new species of Leptoderma Vaillant, 1886 (Osmeriformes: Alepocephalidae) from the Pacific coast of Central America. Zootaxa, 4066 (4): 493–500.
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