IRMNG - Echelus Rafinesque, 1810

IRMNG taxon details

Echelus Rafinesque, 1810

IRMNG_ID

1300268 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1300268)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Ophichthidae Gunther, 1870

Synonymised names

Enchelys Agassiz, 1846 · unaccepted

Myrus Kaup, 1856 · unaccepted

Direct children (9)

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Species Echelus myrus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Echelus pachyrhynchus (Vaillant, 1888)
Species Echelus uropterus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)
Species Echelus caudilimbatus Poey, 1867 accepted as Paraconger caudilimbatus (Poey, 1867)
Species Echelus ciuciara Rafinesque, 1810 accepted as Ariosoma balearicum (Delaroche, 1809)
Species Echelus microchir Bleeker, 1864 accepted as Myrophis microchir (Bleeker, 1864)
Species Echelus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1810 accepted as Ophisurus serpens (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Echelus punctatus Rafinesque, 1810 accepted as Echelus myrus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Echelus rufus Rafinesque, 1810 accepted as Ophichthus rufus (Rafinesque, 1810)

Environment

marine, brackish, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Rafinesque, C.S. (1810). Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi e nuove specie di animali e piante della Sicilia : con varie osservazioni sopra i medesimi. Sanfilippo. Palermo. 105 p., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.104418
page(s): 63 [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2024). Echelus Rafinesque, 1810. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1300268 on 2024-11-30

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-09-20 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

2016-11-22 11:10:04Z

changed

db_admin

2017-11-22 13:18:58Z

changed

Decock, Wim

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original description Rafinesque, C.S. (1810). Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi e nuove specie di animali e piante della Sicilia : con varie osservazioni sopra i medesimi. Sanfilippo. Palermo. 105 p., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.104418
page(s): 63 [details]

basis of record SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998 [details]

basis of record Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details]

verified source for family WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

verified source for family Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version. , available online at https://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

name verified source Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details]

current name source WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

current name source Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version. , available online at https://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

extant flag source Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 363, 1-560. [details]

habitat flag source FishBase [details]

original description (of Myrus Kaup, 1856) Arch. Naturgesch., 22, Abt. 1
page(s): 53 [details]

original description (of Enchelys Agassiz, 1846) Agassiz, L. (1846). Nomenclatoris zoologici index universalis. Jent & Gassman. viii + 393 pp. [1847]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33664307 [details]

Unreviewed

Descriptive info From FishBase: Brackish + Marine. FishBase flag: All Marine. [details]

Subfamily Ophichthinae [details]

Type species as cited Echelus punctatus Rafinesque 1810 [details]

To WoRMS (from synonym Myrus Kaup, 1856)
To WoRMS