Avocettina
Appearance
Avocettina | |
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Avocet snipe-eel | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Anguilliformes |
Family: | Nemichthyidae |
Genus: | Avocettina D. S. Jordan & B. M. Davis, 1891 |
Type species | |
Nemichthys infans Günther, 1878
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Species | |
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Avocettina is a genus of eels in the snipe-eel family Nemichthyidae. It currently contains the following species:
- Avocettina acuticeps (Regan, 1916) (Southern snipe-eel)
- Avocettina bowersii (Garman, 1899)
- Avocettina infans (Günther, 1878) (Avocet snipe-eel)
- Avocettina paucipora J. G. Nielsen & D. G. Smith, 1978
References
[edit]- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Avocettina". FishBase. June 2011 version.