Ilyophinae
Sign in to saveIlyophinae, the arrowtooth ells or mustard eels, is a subfamily of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Synaphobranchidae, the cutthroat eels. Within its family this subfamily shows greatest number of species and the greatest morphological diversity.
Species
リュウキュウホラアナゴ亜科
Subfamily
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderAnguilliformes
- FamilySynaphobranchidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 47
- Family
- Synaphobranchidae
- Collections
- MCZ
- Recorded in
- Portugal, United States, High Seas, Mexico, Australia, Colombia, Suriname, Papua New Guinea
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- Parent taxon
- Synaphobranchidae
- Image
- Ilyophis brunneus.jpg
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- Ilyophinae
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Ilyophinae, the arrowtooth ells or mustard eels, is a subfamily of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Synaphobranchidae, the cutthroat eels. Within its family this subfamily shows greatest number of species and the greatest morphological diversity.
==Taxonomy== The Ilyophinae was first proposed as the family Ilyophididae in 1891 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Bradley Moore Davis, this taxon has also been known as the Dysommidae, or Dysomminae, but this name was proposed by Theodore Gill but Jordan and Davi's name has priority. It is now regarded as a subfamily of the cutthroat eel family, Synaphobranchidae, within the eel order Anguilliformes.
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