Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Orthokaryota
Cladus: Neokaryota
Cladus: Scotokaryota
Cladus: Podiata
Cladus: Amorphea
Cladus: Obazoa
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Olfactores
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Elopocephalai
Supercohors: Elopocephala
Cohors/Superordo: Elopomorpha
Ordo: Anguilliformes
Subordo: Anguilloidei
Familia: Myrocongridae
Genus: Myroconger
Species (5): M. compressus – M. gracilis – M. nigrodentatus – M. prolixus – M. seychellensis
Name
Myroconger Günther, 1870: 93.
Gender: masculine.
Type species: Myroconger compressus Günther, 1870.
Fixation: type by monotypy.
References
Primary references
Günther, A.C.L.G. 1869. Report of a second collection of fishes made at St. Helena by J. C. Melliss, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 37(2): 238–239. BHL
Günther, A.C.L.G. 1870. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, Ganoidei, Chondropterygii, Cyclostomata, Leptocardii, in the British Museum. Vol. 8. The Trustees, London, pp. i–xxv + 1–549. BHL
Links
Myroconger Günther, 1870 – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Myroconger and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Myroconger species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Myroconger is the only genus of eels, the thin eels, in the family Myrocongridae. Very little is known about the group.[2]
Until recently, only a single specimen from this family was known. This individual had been caught off Saint Helena in 1868. In the 1990s and 2000s, deep-sea submersibles identified several more individuals, including four further species.[3] The first known species, M. compressus, was bright red in colour, but not all other species share this trait.
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[4][5]
Myroconger compressus Günther, 1870 (red eel)
Myroconger gracilis Castle, 1991
Myroconger nigrodentatus Castle & Béarez, 1995 (orange eel)
Myroconger pietschi Espíndola, Caires, Tighe, De Pinna & De Melo, 2021
Myroconger prolixus Castle & Béarez, 1995
Myroconger seychellensis Karmovskaya, 2006
References
Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Myrocongridae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Myrocongridae". FishBase. June 2011 version.
McClosker, John F. (1998). Paxton, J.R.; Eschmeyer, W.N. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Fishes. San Diego: Academic Press. p. 89. ISBN 0-12-547665-5.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Myroconger". FishBase. December 2012 version.
Espíndola, Vinicius C.; Caires, Rodrigo A.; Tighe, Kenneth A.; Pinna, Mario C. C. De; Melo, Marcelo R. S. De (2021-04-29). "A new species of the rare genus Myroconger Günther, 1870 (Anguilliformes: Myrocongridae) from Brazilian waters, tropical western Atlantic". Zootaxa. 4965 (3): 529–540. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4965.3.7. ISSN 1175-5334.
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