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Ophichthini 
Taxonomic Serial No.: 635313

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Tribe  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2004   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassActinopterygii  – ray-finned fishes, spiny rayed fishes, poisson épineux, poissons à nageoires rayonnées  
                      ClassTeleostei   
                         SuperorderElopomorpha   
                            OrderAnguilliformes  – eels, anguilles  
                               SuborderCongroidei   
                                  FamilyOphichthidae  – worm eels, snake eels, serpents de mer, tiesos  
                                     SubfamilyOphichthinae  – snake eels  
                                        TribeOphichthini   
    Direct Children:  
                                           GenusAplatophis Böhlke, 1956  
                                           GenusBrachysomophis Kaup, 1856  
                                           GenusEchelus Rafinesque, 1810  
                                           GenusEchiophis Kaup, 1856  
                                           GenusElapsopis Kaup, 1856  
                                           GenusEvips McCosker, 1972  
                                           GenusHerpetoichthys Kaup, 1856  
                                           GenusHyphalophis McCosker and Böhlke, 1982  
                                           GenusKertomichthys McCosker and Böhlke, 1982  
                                           GenusLeiuranus Bleeker, 1853  
                                           GenusLethogoleos McCosker and Böhlke, 1982  
                                           GenusMalvoliophis Whitley, 1934  
                                           GenusMyrichthys Girard, 1859  
                                           GenusMystriophis Kaup, 1856  
                                           GenusOphichthus Ahl, 1789 – snake eels 
                                           GenusOphisurus Lacepède, 1800  
                                           GenusPhyllophichthus Gosline, 1951  
                                           GenusPisodonophis Kaup, 1856  
                                           GenusQuassiremus Jordan and Davis, 1891  
                                           GenusScytalichthys Jordan and Davis, 1891  
                                           GenusXyrias Jordan and Snyder, 1901  
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Böhlke, E. B., J. E. Böhlke, M. M. Leiby, J. E. McCosker, et al. / Böhlke, Eugenia B., ed.   
  Publication Date: 1989   
  Article/Chapter Title: Orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Fishes of the Western North Atlantic, no. 1, pt. 9, vol. 1   
  Page(s): xvii + 1-656   
  Publisher: Sears Foundation for Marine Research, Yale University   
  Publication Place: New Haven, Connecticut, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-935868-45-3   
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  Author(s)/Editor(s): McCosker, John E.   
  Publication Date: 1977   
  Article/Chapter Title: The osteology, classification, and relationships of the eel family Ophichthidae   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, ser. 4, vol. 41, no. 1   
  Page(s): 1-123   
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