Synbranchinae
| Synbranchinae | |
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| Synbranchus marmoratus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Synbranchiformes |
| Family: | Synbranchidae |
| Subfamily: | Synbranchinae Bonaparte, 1835[1] |
Synbranchinae is a subfamily of swamp eel, consisting of six of the ten genera in the family Synbranchidae. The remaining genus, the monotypic Macrotrema is the only one in the other subfamily Macrotreminae. The subfamily occurs in the Neotropics, Afrotropics and Asia.[2]
Genera[edit]
The following genera are classified in the Synbranchinae:[3][4][5]
- Monopterus Lacepède, 1800
- Ophichthys Swainson, 1839
- Rakthamichthys Britz, Dahanukar, Standing, Philip, Kumar & Raghavan, 2020
- Typhlosynbranchus Pellegrin, 1922
- Synbranchus Bloch, 1795
- Ophisternon McClelland, 1844
References[edit]
- ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
- ^ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 380. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
- ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2019). "Synbranchidae" in FishBase. August 2019 version.
- ^ "Ophichthys desilvai, a poorly known synbranchid eel from Sri Lanka (Teleostei: Synbranchidae)". Pfeil Verlag (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-28.
- ^ "Osteology of 'Monopterus' roseni with the description of Rakthamichthys, new genus, and comments on the generic assignment of the Amphipnous Group species (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes)". Pfeil Verlag (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-28.