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Sphagebranchini
Taxonomic Serial No.: 635316

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


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cordés, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Actinopterygii – ray-finned fishes, spiny rayed fishes, poisson épineux, poissons à nageoires rayonnées
	Class	Teleostei
	Superorder	Elopomorpha
	Order	Anguilliformes – eels, anguilles
	Suborder	Congroidei
	Family	Ophichthidae – worm eels, snake eels, serpents de mer, tiesos
	Subfamily	Ophichthinae – snake eels
	Tribe	Sphagebranchini
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	Genus	Apterichtus Duméril, 1806
	Genus	Caecula Vahl, 1794
	Genus	Cirrhimuraena Kaup, 1856
	Genus	Cirricaecula Schultz in Schultz, Herald, Lachner, Welander and Woods, 1953
	Genus	Hemerorhinus Weber and de Beaufort, 1916
	Genus	Ichthyapus Brisout de Barneville, 1847
	Genus	Lamnostoma Kaup, 1856
	Genus	Stictorhinus Böhlke and McCosker, 1975
	Genus	Yirrkala Whitley, 1940

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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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