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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: Congroidei

Familia: Ophichthidae
Subfamilia: Ophichthinae
Genus: Phaenomonas
Species (4): P. cooperae – P. foresti – P. longissima – P. pinnata
Name

Phaenomonas Myers & Wade, 1941: 77
Gender: feminine
Type species: Phaenomonas pinnata Myers & Wade, 1941
Fixation: original designation [also monotypic]

References
Primary references

Myers, G.S. & Wade, C.B. 1941: Four new genera and ten new species of eels from the Pacific coast of tropical America. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 9 (4): 65–111, Pls. 7-16. BHL

Additional references
Links

ION [species list needs updating]
Nomenclator Zoologicus
Phaenomonas species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024. [species list needs updating]
Phaenomonas 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 [species list needs updating]

Phaenomonas is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae.
Species

There are currently three recognized species in this genus:[1]

Phaenomonas cooperae G. Palmer, 1970 (Short-maned sand-eel)
Phaenomonas longissima (Cadenat & Marchal, 1963) (Short-maned Sand-Eel)
Phaenomonas pinnata G. S. Myers & Wade, 1941 (Elastic eel)

References

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Phaenomonas". FishBase. October 2012 version.

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