Blachea

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Congroidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Elopocephalai Supercohors: Elopocephala Cohors/Superordo: Elopomorpha Ordo: Anguilliformes Subordo: Congroidei

Familia: Congridae
Subfamilia: Congrinae
Genus: Blachea

Species (2): B. longicaudalis – B. xenobranchialis

Name

• Blachea Karrer & Smith, 1980: 642.
  • Gender: feminine.
  • Type species: Blachea xenobranchialis Karrer & Smith, 1980.
    • Fixation: type by original designation (also monotypic).
• Etymology: Jacques Blache (1922–1994), French ichthyologist.

References

Primary references

• Karrer, C. & Smith, D.G. 1980. A new genus and species of congrid eel from the Indo-west Pacific. Copeia, 1980(4): 642–648. JSTOR

Links

• Blachea Karrer and Smith, 1980 – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Blachea and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Blachea species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.