Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anguilliformes 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis/Superclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Elopocephalai
Supercohors: Elopocephala
Cohors/Superordo: Elopomorpha
Ordo: Anguilliformes

Familia: Protanguillidae
Genus: Protanguilla
Species: Protanguilla palau

Name

  • Protanguilla palau Johnson, Ida & Sakaue in Johnson et al., 2012
    • Holotype: NSMT-P 98249
    • Type locality: Underwater cave, western fringing reef of Ngemelis Island, Palau, depth 35 meters.
  • Note: Appeared first as Protoanguilla palau in electronic version (not nomenclaturally available, also would have been preoccupied) name changed to Protanguilla palau in hard copy version. Name changed because †Protoanguilla is preoccupied in fossil eels.

References

  • Springer, V. G. & Johnson, G. D., 2015: The Gill-Arch Musculature of Protanguilla, the Morphologically Most Primitive Eel (Teleostei: Anguilliformes), Compared with That of Other Putatively Primitive Extant Eels and Other Elopomorphs. Copeia, 103 (3): 595-620. DOI: 10.1643/CI-14-152

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