Meadia

Life-forms

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: Synaphobranchoidei

Familia: Synaphobranchidae
Subfamilia: Ilyophinae
Genus: Meadia
Species (3): M. abyssalis – M. minor – M. roseni
Name

Meadia Böhlke, 1951: 6.

Gender: feminine

Type species: Dysomma abyssale Kamohara, 1938

Fixation: original designation [also monotypic]
References
Primary references

Böhlke, J.E. 1951. Meadia, a new genus for the West Pacific dysommid eel, Dysomma abyssale Kamohara. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin 4(1): 6. Reference page.

Meadia is a genus of eels in the cutthroat eel family Synaphobranchidae. It currently contains the following species:

Meadia abyssalis (Kamohara, 1938) (abyssal cutthroat eel)
Meadia roseni H. K. Mok, C. Y. Lee & H. J. Chan, 1991
Meadia minor V.-Q. Vo & H.-C. Ho, 2021 (small cutthroat eel)

References

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Meadia in FishBase. June 2011 version.