Facciolella

Taxonavigation

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: Nettastomatidae
Genus: Facciolella

Species (5): F. castlei – F. equatorialis – F. karrerae – F. oxyrhynchus – F. saurencheloides

Name

• Facciolella Whitley, 1938: 197
  • Gender: feminine.
  • Type species: Nettastomella physonima Facciolà, 1914.
    • Fixation: type by being a replacement name.
• Etymology: Luigi Facciolà (born 1851), Italian icthyologist.

Synonyms

• Nettastomella Facciolà, 1911: 277
  • Gender: feminine.
  • Type species: Nettastomella physonima Facciolà, 1914.
    • Fixation: type by subsequent monotypy.
• Etymology: diminutive of genus Nettastoma Rafinesque, 1810, sorcerer.

References

Primary references

• Facciolà, L. 1911. Generi dei vertebrati ittioidi del mare di Messina. Bollettino della Società Zoologica Italiana, Serie II, 12: 268–287. BHL
• Whitley, G.P. 1938. Studies in ichthyology. No. 11. Records of the Australian Museum, 20(3): 195–199, Pl. 21. Full text PDF

Links

• Facciolella – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Facciolella 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.
• Facciolella species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.