See: rrSuperregnum: 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: Letharchus
Species (3): L. aliculatus – L. rosenblatti – L. velifer
Name
Letharchus Goode & Bean, 1882: 436
Gender: masculine
Type species: Letharchus velifer Goode & Bean, 1882
Fixation: monotypy
Synonymy
Letharcus Goode & Bean, 1882 [misspelling in original publication, corrected in erratum]
References
Primary references
Goode, G.B. & Bean, T.H. 1882: Descriptions of twenty-five new species of fish from the southern United States, and three new genera, Letharcus, Ioglossus, and Chriodorus. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 5 (297): 412–437. BHL
Additional references
McCosker, J.E. 1974: A revision of the ophichthid eel genus Letharchus. Copeia, 1974 (3): 619–629.
Links
ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus
Letharchus species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Letharchus 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
Letharchus velifer
Letharchus is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. It currently contains the following species:
Letharchus aliculatus McCosker, 1974
Letharchus rosenblatti McCosker, 1974 (Sailfin snake-eel)
Letharchus velifer Goode & T. H. Bean, 1882 (American sailfin eel)
References
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Letharchus". FishBase. June 2011 version.
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