Genus Echelus Rafinesque, 1810

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External Links

• Echelus Rafinesque, C.S. 1810. Caratteri di alcuni Nouvi Generi e Nouve Specie di Animali e Piante della Sicilia con varie Osservazioni sopra i Medesimi. Sanfilippo, Palermo. 105, pl. 1-20 [63].

  Type species:

   Echelus punctatus Rafinesque, 1810 by subsequent designation, see Bleeker, P. 1864. Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néerlandaises, publié sous les auspices du Gouvernement colonial néerlandais. Tome 4. Murènes, Symbranches, Leptocéphales. Amsterdam : Fréd. Müller 132 pp. pls 145-193. [20]; Bleeker, P. 1864. Systema Muraenorum revisum. Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde 2: 113-122 [117].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

East Atlantic-Indo-west Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

General References

McCosker, J.E. 1977. The osteology, classification, and relationships of the eel family Ophichthidae. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 41(1): 1-123 figs 1-45 [75]

McCosker, J.E., Allen, G.R., Hoese, D.F., Gates, J.E. & Bray, D.J. 2006. Ophichthidae. pp. 264-277 in Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & Allen, G.R. Fishes. In, Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 35. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp. [268]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Mar-2019	ELOPOMORPHA	06-Jul-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese (AM)
24-Sep-2011	ANGUILLIFORMES	24-Sep-2011	MOVED	Dr Dianne Bray
		27-Jul-2010	MODIFIED