Protanguilla

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anguilliformes

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Elopocephalai Supercohors: Elopocephala Cohors/Superordo: Elopomorpha Ordo: Anguilliformes

Familia: Protanguillidae
Genus: Protanguilla
Species (1): P. palau

Name

Protanguilla Johnson, Ida & Miya, 2012

• Gender: [feminine]
• Type species: Protanguilla palau Johnson, Ida & Sakaue, 2012
  • Fixation: original designation [see p. 936] [and monotypy]

Note: Appeared first as Protoanguilla in electronic version (not nomenclaturally available, also would have been preoccupied) name changed to Protanguilla in hard copy version. Name changed because †Protoanguilla is preoccupied in fossil eels.

Etymology: From the Greek protos, first, and the Latin anguilla, eel, in reference to the early divergence of the genus among anguilliforms.

References

Primary references

• Johnson, G.D., H. Ida, J. Sakaue, T. Sado, T. Asahida & M. Miya, 2012: A ‘living fossil’ eel (Anguilliformes: Protanguillidae, fam. nov.) from an undersea cave in Palau. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B), 279 (1730): 934–943. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1289

Additional references

• Springer, V.G. & Johnson, G.D. 2015. The Gill-Arch Musculature of Protanguilla, the Morphologically Most Primitive Eel (Teleostei: Anguilliformes), Compared with That of Other Putatively Primitive Extant Eels and Other Elopomorphs. Copeia 103(3): 595–620. DOI: 10.1643/CI-14-152 Reference page. 

Links

• Protanguilla species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2026. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Protanguilla and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2026. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Protanguilla – Taxon details on National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
• Protanguilla in the World Register of Marine Species