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Anguillidae Rafinesque 1810

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Escuela de Biología, Museo de Zoología / Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ecología Tropical (CIBET) and Centro de
  • 2. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, 480 Wilson Rd # 13, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA joel. t. betts @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6018 - 8995
  • 3. Unidad de Gestión Técnica de Proyectos - Oficina de Relaciones Internacionales y de Cooperación Externa (ORICE / UGETEP),
  • 4. Universidad Americana (UAM, Costado Noroeste Camino de Oriente, Managua, Nicaragua edgar. ecologica @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8148 - 3195
  • 5. Department of Environment and Development, Zamorano Biodiversity Center. Zamorano University of Tegucigalpa, P. O. Box 93, Honduras evandenberghe @ zamorano. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7566 - 0415
  • 6. Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH). Chicago, Illinois, United States of America delias @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4215 - 0384 cmcmahan @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2113 - 8554

Description

Family Anguillidae Rafinesque 1810 (Fig. 2I). Freshwater Eels; Anguilas de Agua Dulce

Description: Body elongate, eel-shaped, more or less rounded in cross section; up to 150 cm in length; mouth reaching to under rear edge of eye, lower jaw slightly protruding; gill opening crescentic, lateral; scales minute, embedded and arranged in a basket-weave pattern; pectoral fins well developed; dorsal-fin origin well behind the pectoral fins; dorsal and anal fins continuous with the caudal fin (Nelson et al. 2016, Robertson & Van Tassell 2019). Distribution: Catadromous, tropical and temperate oceans except the eastern Pacific and southern Atlantic, and freshwater in coastal areas of eastern North and Central America (Nelson et al. 2016). One genus and one species in Nicaraguan freshwaters.

Notes

Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/038C8788E84DFFBAFF792B6BFDBC3561

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.10208794 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/10208788 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFB5FFF0E843FFB5FFEE2C1FFFA1347C (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/9ECCB3F7-5481-47C2-8A5A-E9A3F38C31BA (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/038C8788E84DFFBAFF792B6BFDBC3561 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/219295991 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/279636/taxon/038C8788E84DFFBAFF792B6BFDBC3561.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Rafinesque
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anguilliformes
Family
Anguillidae
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Anguillidae Rafinesque, 1810 sec. Angulo, Betts, González-Alemán, Castañeda, Berghe, Elías, Mcmahan & Matamoros, 2023

References

  • Robertson, D. R. & Van Tassell, J. (2019) Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean: online information system. Version 2.0. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama´. Available from: https: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / caribbean / en / pages (acccesed 18 February 2023)