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: Pisodonophis
Species (9): P. boro – P. cancrivorus – P. copelandi – P. daspilotus – P. hijala – P. hoeveni – P. hypselopterus – P. sangjuensis – P. semicinctus
Name
Pisodonophis Kaup, 1856: 47
Gender: masculine
Type species: Ophisurus cancrivorus Richardson, 1848
Fixation: subsequent designation by Bleeker, 1864: 119
Synonyms
Brachycheirophis Fowler, 1944: 190
Pisoodonophis [misspelling]
References
Primary references
Kaup, J.J. 1856: Uebersicht der Aale. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 22 (1): 41–77. BHL
Additional references
Bleeker, P. 1864: Systema Muraenorum revisum. Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde, 2: 113–122. BHL
Ji, H.-S.; Kim, J.-K. 2011: A new species of snake eel, Pisodonophis sangjuensis (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from Korea. Zootaxa, 2758: 57–68. Preview
Links
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Nomenclator Zoologicus
Pisodonophis species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Pisodonophis 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
Vernacular names
English: Snake Eel
Pisodonophis boro
Pisodonophis is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. It currently contains the following species:
Pisodonophis boro (F. Hamilton, 1822) (rice-paddy eel)
Pisodonophis cancrivorus (J. Richardson, 1848) (longfin snake-eel)
Pisodonophis copelandi Herre, 1953
Pisodonophis daspilotus C. H. Gilbert, 1898 (marble-toothed snake-eel)
Pisodonophis hijala (F. Hamilton, 1822)
Pisodonophis hoeveni (Bleeker, 1853) (Hoeven's snake-eel)
Pisodonophis hypselopterus (Bleeker, 1851)
Pisodonophis sangjuensis H. S. Ji & J. K. Kim, 2011 (Korean snake-eel)
Pisodonophis semicinctus (J. Richardson, 1848)
Pisodonophis boro is an endemic fish in Vietnam's coastal region, it is also found in the paddy fields of the Hải Phòng area of Vietnam, where the small fry are known as cá nhệch, "nhệch fish," and are eaten in a local salad, gỏi nhệch.
References
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Pisodonophis". FishBase. June 2011 version.
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