genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
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fish
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family
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Ophichthidae
Ophichthidae is a family (biology), family of fish in the order (biology), order Anguilliformes, commonly known as the snake eels. The term "Ophichthidae" comes from Greek language, Greek ''ophis'' ("serpent") and ''ichthys'' ("fish"). Snake eels ...
(snake eels). Many of its species are called finless eels.
The name literally means "finless fish" in Greek, from ('no-fins' < privative ''a'' + ) and ('fish').
Species
There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus:
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Apterichtus ansp
''Apterichtus ansp'', the Academy eel, is a species of snake eel native to the western Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina, United States through the Bahamas to Brazil. It is known to dwell down to a maximum depth of , and leads a benthic lifestyl ...
'' ( J. E. Böhlke, 1968) (Academy finless eel)
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Apterichtus australis
''Apterichtus australis'', the snake eel or South Pacific snake eel, is a species of snake eel native to the south Pacific Ocean where it occurs around the island groups of Rapa Iti, Pitcairn, Easter and the Kermadecs. It can be found at depths ...
Apterichtus caecus
''Apterichtus caecus'', the European finless eel, is a species of snake eel native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean, from the Azores to the Gulf of Guinea, and into the western Mediterranean including the Balearic Islands. It can be found on the con ...
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Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
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1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoologic ...
) (European finless eel)
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Apterichtus dunalailai
''Apterichtus'' is a genus of fish in the family (biology), family Ophichthidae (snake eels). Many of its species are called finless eels.
The name literally means "finless fish" in Greek, from ('no-fins' < privative a, privative ''a'' + wikt: ...
'' McCosker & Hibino, 2015McCosker, J.E. & Hibino, Y. (2015): A review of the finless snake eels of the genus ''Apterichtus'' (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), with the description of five new species. ''Zootaxa, 3941 (1): 49–78.''
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Apterichtus equatorialis
''Apterichtus equatorialis'', the finless eel or equatorial eel, is a species of snake eel native to the eastern Pacific Ocean, from the Gulf of California to Panama and around the Galapagos Islands. This species can be found at depths of from ...
Wade
Wade, WADE, or Wades may refer to:
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* Wade, North Carolina, a town
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, 1941) (Equatorial finless eel)
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Apterichtus flavicaudus
''Apterichtus flavicaudus'', variously known as the orange snake eel, sharpnose sand eel or sharpnose snake eel, is a species of snake eel native to the Indian Ocean from the Seychelles to Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. It can be found at depths of ...
Apterichtus gracilis
''Apterichtus gracilis'' is a species of snake eel native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean off the coast of western Africa. It is known to occur on the continental shelf
A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under ...
Apterichtus hatookai
''Apterichtus'' is a genus of fish in the family Ophichthidae (snake eels). Many of its species are called finless eels.
The name literally means "finless fish" in Greek, from ('no-fins' < Hibino, Shibata &
Kimura Kimura (written: or lit. "tree village") is the 17th most common Japanese surname.
Notable people with the surname
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, 2014 (Orange-blotched finless eel) Hibino, Y., Shibata, J.-y. & Kimura, S. (2014): Description of a new snake eel, ''Apterichtus hatookai'' sp. nov. (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), from the Pacific coast of Japan. ''Ichthyological Research, 61 (4): 317-321.''
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Apterichtus jeffwilliamsi
''Apterichtus'' is a genus of fish in the family Ophichthidae (snake eels). Many of its species are called finless eels.
The name literally means "finless fish" in Greek, from ('no-fins' < McCosker & Hibino, 2015
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Ohta
Ōta, Ota, or Ohta may refer to the following:
People
* Ota (wife of Arnulf of Carinthia), Queen of the East Franks 888-899, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire 896-899
*Ota (cartoonist), Brazilian cartoonist
* Atsuya Ota, Japanese basketball pla ...
Kimura Kimura (written: or lit. "tree village") is the 17th most common Japanese surname.
Notable people with the surname
*, Japanese novelist
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese botanist
*, Japanese idol and singer
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese s ...
, 2016Hibino, Y., McCosker, J.E. & Kimura, S. (2016): A new species of ''Apterichtus'' (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from the Marquesas Islands. ''Zootaxa, 4117 (1): 146–150.''