Avocet snipe eel
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Avocet snipe eel | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Anguilliformes |
Family: | Nemichthyidae |
Genus: | Avocettina |
Species: | A. infans
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Binomial name | |
Avocettina infans Günther, 1878
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Synonyms | |
Leptocephalus oxycephalus |
The avocet snipe eel (Avocettina infans) is a snipe eel of the family Nemichthyidae, found in all oceans except the Mediterranean and the eastern Pacific, at depths between 50 and 4,500 m. Their length is up to 75 centimetres (2.46 ft).
References
- "Avocettina infans". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 19 March 2006.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Avocettina infans" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8Error: "Q1038924" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.
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- Nemichthyidae
- Fish described in 1878
- Taxa named by Albert Günther