Synbranchinae
Synbranchinae is a subfamily of swamp eel, consisting of three of the four genera in the family Synbranchidae. The remaining genus, the monotypic Macrotrema is the only one in the other subfamily Macrotreminae. The subfamily occurs in the Neotropics, Afrotropics and Asia.[2]
Synbranchinae | |
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Synbranchus marmoratus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Synbranchiformes |
Family: | Synbranchidae |
Subfamily: | Synbranchinae Bonaparte, 1835[1] |
Genera
The following genera are classified in the Synbranchinae:[3]
- Monopterus Lacepède, 1800
- Synbranchus Bloch, 1795
- Ophisternon McClelland, 1844
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References
- Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230.
- J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 380. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2019). "Synbranchidae" in FishBase. August 2019 version.
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