Saurenchelys

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: Congroidei

Familia: Nettastomatidae
Genus: Saurenchelys
Species: S. cancrivora – S. cognita – S. elongatum – S. fierasfer – S. finitimus – S. gigas – S. halimyon – S. lateromaculatus – S. meteori – S. petersi – S. stylurus – S. taiwanensis
Name

Saurenchelys Peters, 1864

Type species: Saurenchelys cancrivora Peters, 1864
Synonyms

Dietrichthys (subgenus of Chlopsis) Whitley, 1935
Chlopsis (Dietrichthys) Whitley, 1935

References

Peters, W.C.H. 1864. Über einige neue Säugethiere (Mormops, Macrotus, Vesperus, Molossus, Capromys), Amphibien (Plathydactylus, Otocryptis, Euprepes, Ungalia, Dromicus, Tropidonotus, Xenodon, Hylodes), und Fische (Sillago, Sebastes, Channa, Myctophum, Carassius, Barbus, Capoëta, Poecilia, Saurenchelys, Leptocephalus) Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1864: 381–399. Reference page.

Links

Saurenchelys and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2022. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Saurenchelys species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2022. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 08/2021.

Saurenchelys is a genus of eels in the duckbill eel family Nettastomatidae.
Species

There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus:

Saurenchelys cancrivora W. K. H. Peters, 1864 (slender sorcerer)
Saurenchelys cognita D. G. Smith, 1989 (Long-face wire eel)
Saurenchelys elongata (Kotthaus, 1968) [1]
Saurenchelys fierasfer (D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1901) (Black-tail duckbill eel)
Saurenchelys finitima (Whitley, 1935) (Whitsunday wire eel)
Saurenchelys gigas J. Lin, D. G. Smith & K. T. Shao, 2015 (Giant duckbill eel) [1]
Saurenchelys lateromaculata (D'Ancona, 1928)
Saurenchelys meteori Klausewitz & Zajonz, 2000
Saurenchelys petersi F. Day, 1878 [1]
Saurenchelys stylura (E. H. M. Lea, 1913) (Pillar wire eel)
Saurenchelys taiwanensis Karmovskaya, 2004

References

Lin, J., Smith, D.G., Shao, K.-T. & Chen, H.-M. (2015). "Saurenchelys gigas sp. nov., a new nettastomatid eel (Teleostei, Anguilliformes, Nettastomatidae) from the western central Pacific" (PDF). Zootaxa. 4060 (1): 121–130.