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• Kingdom: Animalia () - animals
  • Phylum: Chordata () - Chordates
    • Order: Anguilliformes ()
      • Family: n shallow waters (to 20 m) among rocks and sand ()
        • Subfamily: Ophichthinae ()
          • Genus: Myrichthys () - Girard, 1859
            • Specific name: pantostigmius
              • Scientific name: - the United states, Canada, and Mexico Sixth Edition. Special Publication 29.
              • Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Name Status: Accepted Name .
                
                Comment: Author year from Eschmeyer 2007; also appeared in 1899 (Ref. 58462).

                Similar Species

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                Members of the genus Myrichthys

                ZipcodeZoo has pages for 11 species and subspecies in this genus:

                M. acuminatus (Harlequin Snake Eel) · M. aspetocheiros (Longfin Spotted Snake-Eel) · M. breviceps (Culebra Rosario) · M. colubrinus (Harlequin Snake-Eel) · M. maculosus (Ocellated Snake-Eel) · M. magnificus (Magnificent Snake Eel) · M. ocellatus (Dark-Spotted Snake Eel) · M. oculatus (Clarion Snake Eel) · M. pantostigmius (Clarion Snake Eel) · M. pardalis (Leopard Eel) · M. tigrinus (Spotted Tiger Snake Eel)

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                Further Reading

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                • A guide to the study of fishes, New York, H. Holt, 1905. url .
                • A guide to the study of fishes, by David Starr Jordan. .. New York, H. Holt and Company, 1905. url p. 151, p. xiii.
                • Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , , p. 2803.
                • Fishes, New York, H. Holt and Company, 1907. url .
                • Pamphlets on forestry. Fish and game. [1900?- url , p. 2803, p. 3245.
                • Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Galapagos expedition, 1898-1899. Washington, D.C., The Academy, 1901-1905. url , p. 346, p. 424.
                • Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1979- url p. 57, p. 63.
                • Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences. Washington, Washington Academy of Sciences. url p. 346, p. 478.
                • Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries for the fiscal year. .. with appendixes Washington: G.P.O., 1914- url p. 85.
                • Shore fishes of the Revillagigedo, Clipperton, Cocos and Galapagos islands. By Robert Evans Snodgrass and Edmund Heller. Washington, D. C., The Academy, 1905. url p. 333, p. 346, p. 424.
                • The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama / by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, 1896-1900. url , p. 2803, p. 3245.

                Notes

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                Contributors

                • American Fisheries Society. Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United states, Canada, and Mexico Sixth Edition. Special Publication 29.
                • Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
                • Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
                • FishBase 2006.
                • FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
                • Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
                • IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
                • McCosker, J., Barez, P., and Lea, B. 2010. Myrichthys pantostigmius. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.
                • McCosker, John (from FishBase).
                • Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

                Data Sources

                Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:
                
                

                • Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie

                Identifiers

                • Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
                • Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-144874
                • Fishbase Species ID: 59343
                • Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 636089
                • IUCN ID: 225199
                • Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 117254

                Footnotes

                1. McCosker, J.E. and R.H. Rosenblatt (1993). A revision of the snake eel genus Myrichthys (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) with the description of a new eastern Pacific species. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 48(8):153-169. [back]
                2. McCosker, J., Béarez, P., and Lea, B. 2010. Myrichthys pantostigmius. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 02 February 2012. [back]

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