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Leptocephalus
| Description | Leptocephalus (meaning "slim head") is the flat and transparent larva of the eel, marine eels, and other members of the superorder Elopomorpha. This is one of the most diverse groups of teleosts, containing 801 species in 4 orders, 24 families, and 156 genera. This group is thought to have arisen in the Cretaceous period over 140 million years ago. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptocephalus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopterygii : Anguilliformes : Congridae : Leptocephalus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | synonym -> Conger | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Leptocephalus Scopoli, 1777 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptocephalus |
References
| Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
| Böhlke, E. B., J. E. Böhlke, M. M. Leiby, J. E. McCosker, et al. / Böhlke, Eugenia B., ed., 1989: Orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes. Fishes of the Western North Atlantic, no. 1, pt. 9, vol. 1. xvii + 1-656. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
| International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Direction 87 Completion and, in Part, correction of the entries on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology in Regard to the generic names Cottus Linnaeus, 1758, and Conger Oken, 1817 (class Pisces) made by the rulings given respectively in Opinions 11 and 93 published in the period up to the end of 1936 and matters incidental thereto.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1F(F.1), 1-16 (1958) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology |
| Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2019). Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2019. - via World Register of Marine Species |
| Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2019). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2019). - via World Register of Marine Species |
| Eschmeyer online (Jun 2012) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| refer synonym source - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
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