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: Nemichthyoidei
Familia: Nemichthyidae
Genus: Nemichthys
Species (3): N. curvirostris – N. larseni – N. scolopaceus
Name
Nemichthys Richardson, 1848: 25
Gender: masculine
Type species: Nemichthys scolopaceus Richardson, 1848
Fixation: monotypy
Synonymy
Belonopsis Brandt, 1854
Cercomitus Weber, 1913
Investigator Goode in Goode & Bean, 1896
Leptorhynchus Lowe, 1852
Nematoprora Gilbert, 1905
Paravocettinops Kanazawa & Maul, 1967
Tilurella Roule, 1911
[source: Catalog of Fishes]
References
Richardson, J. 1848: Fishes. Pp. 1-28, Pls. 1-10. In: Adams, A.: The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang; under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., F.R.A.S., F.G.S., during the years 1843-1846. London. BHL
Links
ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus
Nemichthys species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Nemichthys 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
Nemichthys scolopaceus
Nemichthys is a genus of eels in the snipe-eel family Nemichthyidae. It currently contains the following species:
Nemichthys curvirostris (Strömman, 1896) (boxer snipe-eel)
Nemichthys larseni J. G. Nielsen & D. G. Smith, 1978
Nemichthys scolopaceus J. Richardson, 1848 (slender snipe-eel)
References
Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Nemichthyidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Nemichthys". FishBase. June 2011 version.
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