Gavialiceps

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: Muraenesocidae
Genus: Gavialiceps

Species (5): G. arabicus – G. bertelseni – G. javanicus – G. taeniola – G. taiwanensis

Name

• Gavialiceps Alcock, 1889: 460
  • Gender: neuter.
  • Type species: Gavialiceps taeniola Alcock, 1889.
    • Fixation: type by subsequent designation.
• Etymology: Hindi ghariyal "gharial"; Latin -ceps "-headed, -capped", from caput, capitis "head".

References

Primary references

• Alcock, A.W. 1889. Natural history notes from H. M. Indian marine survey steamer 'Investigator,' Commander Alfred Carpenter, R. N., D. S. O., commanding.—No. 13. On the bathybial fishes of the Bay of Bengal and neighbouring waters, obtained during the seasons 1885-1889. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Sixth Series, 4(24): 450–461. BHL

Additional references

• Lin, C-T. & Ho, H-C. 2018. Morphological and molecular identification of leptocephali of Taiwanese duckbill conger, Gavialiceps taiwanensis (Chen & Weng, 1967) (Family Congridae). Pp 215–227 In Ho, H-C., Holleman, W., Hilton, E.J., Smith, D.G. & McCosker, J.E. (eds.), Systematics and biodiversity of eels (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes) of Taiwan (II). Zootaxa, 4454(1): 1–237. Reference page.  Zootaxa 4454(1): 215–227. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4454.1.17 PDF Reference page. 

Links

• Gavialiceps Alcock, 1889 – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Gavialiceps 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.
• Gavialiceps species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.