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Scolecenchelys  Ogilby, 1897
Taxonomic Serial No.: 635381

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s): Aotea Phillipps, 1926
  
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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  
                                     SubfamilyMyrophinae  – worm eels  
                                        TribeMyrophini  incertae sedis  
                                           GenusScolecenchelys Ogilby, 1897  
    Direct Children:  
                                              SpeciesScolecenchelys acutirostris (Weber and de Beaufort, 1916)  
                                              SpeciesScolecenchelys australis (Macleay, 1881)  
                                              SpeciesScolecenchelys borealis (Machida and Shiogaki, 1990)  
                                              SpeciesScolecenchelys breviceps (Günther, 1876)  
                                              SpeciesScolecenchelys chilensis (McCosker, 1970)  
                                              SpeciesScolecenchelys cookei (Fowler, 1928)  
                                              SpeciesScolecenchelys erythraeensis (Bauchot and Maugé, 1980)  
                                              SpeciesScolecenchelys godeffroyi (Regan, 1909)  
                                              SpeciesScolecenchelys gymnota (Bleeker, 1857) – slender worm eel 
                                              SpeciesScolecenchelys iredalei (Whitley, 1927) – Iredale's worm eel 
                                              SpeciesScolecenchelys japonica (Machida and Ohta, 1993)  
                                              SpeciesScolecenchelys nicholsae (Waite, 1904)  
                                              SpeciesScolecenchelys okamurai (Machida and Ohta, 1996)  
                                              SpeciesScolecenchelys profundorum (McCosker and Parin, 1995)  
                                              SpeciesScolecenchelys puhioilo (McCosker, 1979)  
                                              SpeciesScolecenchelys tasmaniensis (McCulloch, 1911)  
                                              SpeciesScolecenchelys vermiformis (Peters, 1866) – shortfinned worm eel 
                                              SpeciesScolecenchelys xorae (Smith, 1958) – orangehead worm eel 
       

 References
       
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  Source: Catalog of Fishes, 13-May-2004, website (version 10-May-04)  
  Acquired: 2004   
  Notes: http://www.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/   
  Reference for: Scolecenchelys   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Castle, P. H. J., and John E. McCosker   
  Publication Date: 1999   
  Article/Chapter Title: A New Genus and Two New Species of Myrophine Worm-eels, with Comments on Muraenichthys and Scolecenchelys (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Records of the Australian Museum, vol. 51, no 2   
  Page(s): 113-122   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0067-1975   
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  Reference for: Scolecenchelys   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Scolecenchelys was formerly a synonym of Muraenichthys. Its tentative parent is the tribe Myrophini  
 

 

    


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