Biology:Whitsunday wire eel
From HandWiki
Short description: Species of fish
| Saurenchelys finitima | |
|---|---|
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
| |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Nettastomatidae |
| Genus: | Saurenchelys |
| Species: | S. finitima
|
| Binomial name | |
| Saurenchelys finitima (Whitley, 1935)
| |
| Synonyms | |
|
Chlopsis finitimus Whitley, 1935 | |
Saurenchelys finitima, also known as the Whitsunday wire eel is a species of eel in the family Nettastomatidae.[1] It was described by Gilbert Percy Whitley in 1935, originally under the genus Chlopsis. It is a marine, tropical eel which is endemic to Australia , in the western Pacific Ocean.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Saurenchelys finitimus" in FishBase. October 2015 version.
Wikidata ☰ Q2670378 entry
 |  |
