Nemichthys scolopaceus Richardson, 1848
- Dataset
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Teleostei
- order
- Anguilliformes
- family
- Nemichthyidae
- genus
- Nemichthys
- species
- Nemichthys scolopaceus
Name
- Synonyms
- Leptorhynchus leuchtenbergi Lowe, 1852
- Nematoprora polygonifera Gilbert, 1905
- Nemichthys avocetta Jordan & Gilbert, 1881
- Paravocettinops trilinearis Kanazawa & Maul, 1967
- Homonyms
- Nemichthys scolopaceus Richardson, 1848
- Common names
- Atlantic snipe eel in English
- slender snipe eel in English
- tijera esbelta in Spanish
Bibliographic References
- Claro, Rodolfo, and Lynne R. Parenti / Claro, Rodolfo, Kenyon C. Lindeman, and L. R. Parenti, eds., 2001: Chapter 2: The Marine Ichthyofauna of Cuba. Ecology of the Marine Fishes of Cuba. 21-57.
- Moore, Jon A., Karsten E. Hartel, James E. Craddock, and John K. Galbraith, 2003: An annotated list of deepwater fishes from off the New England region, with new area records. Northeastern Naturalist, vol. 10, no. 2. 159-248.
- Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386.
- Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1980: A List of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fourth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 12. 174.
- Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1991: Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fifth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 20. 183.
- Shiino, Sueo M., 1976: List of Common Names of Fishes of the World, Those Prevailing among English-speaking Nations. Science Report of Shima Marineland, no. 4. 262.
- Smith, D. G. / Carpenter, Kent E., and Volker H. Niem, eds., 1999: Nemichthyidae: Snipe eels. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes: The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific, vol. 3: Batoid fishes, chimaeras and Bony fishes, part 1 (Elopidae to Linophrynidae). 1678-1679.
- Smith, David G., and Kenneth A. Tighe / Collette, Bruce B., and Grace Klein-MacPhee, eds., 2002: Snipe Eels: Family Nemichthyidae. Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, Third Edition. 100-101.