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Heteroconger  Bleeker, 1868
Taxonomic Serial No.: 161395

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s): Nystactichthys Böhlke, 1958
  
    Nystactes Böhlke, 1957
  
    Taenioconger Herre, 1923
  
    Xarifania Klausewitz and Eibl-Eibesfeldt, 1959
  
  Common Name(s):    
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2004   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassActinopterygii  – ray-finned fishes, spiny rayed fishes, poisson épineux, poissons à nageoires rayonnées  
                      ClassTeleostei   
                         SuperorderElopomorpha   
                            OrderAnguilliformes  – eels, anguilles  
                               SuborderCongroidei   
                                  FamilyCongridae  – conger eels, congers, congres, congrios  
                                     SubfamilyHeterocongrinae  – garden eels  
                                        GenusHeteroconger Bleeker, 1868  
    Direct Children:  
                                           Species Heteroconger balteatus Castle and Randall, 1999  
                                           Species Heteroconger camelopardalis (Lubbock, 1980)  
                                           Species Heteroconger canabus (Cowan and Rosenblatt, 1974) – Cape garden eel, congrio del Cabo 
                                           Species Heteroconger chapmani (Herre, 1923)  
                                           Species Heteroconger cobra Böhlke and Randall, 1981  
                                           Species Heteroconger digueti (Pellegrin, 1923) – Cortez garden eel, congrio de Cortés 
                                           Species Heteroconger enigmaticus Castle and Randall, 1999  
                                           Species Heteroconger hassi (Klausewitz and Eibl-Eibesfeldt, 1959)  
                                           Species Heteroconger klausewitzi (Eibl-Eibesfeldt and Köster, 1983)  
                                           Species Heteroconger lentiginosus Böhlke and Randall, 1981  
                                           Species Heteroconger longissimus Günther, 1870 – brown garden eel, congrio de jardín 
                                           Species Heteroconger luteolus Smith, 1989 – yellow garden eel 
                                           Species Heteroconger obscurus (Klausewitz and Eibl-Eibesfeldt, 1959)  
                                           Species Heteroconger pellegrini Castle, 1999 – speckled garden eel, congrio pecoso 
                                           Species Heteroconger perissodon Böhlke and Randall, 1981  
                                           Species Heteroconger polyzona Bleeker, 1868  
                                           Species Heteroconger taylori Castle and Randall, 1995  
                                           Species Heteroconger tomberua Castle and Randall, 1999  
                                           Species Heteroconger tricia Castle and Randall, 1999  
       

 References
       
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  Source: Catalog of Fishes, 13-May-2004, website (version 10-May-04)  
  Acquired: 2004   
  Notes: http://www.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/   
  Reference for: Heteroconger   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Heteroconger   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Böhlke, E. B., J. E. Böhlke, M. M. Leiby, J. E. McCosker, et al. / Böhlke, Eugenia B., ed.  
  Publication Date: 1989   
  Article/Chapter Title: Orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Fishes of the Western North Atlantic, no. 1, pt. 9, vol. 1   
  Page(s): xvii + 1-656   
  Publisher: Sears Foundation for Marine Research, Yale University   
  Publication Place: New Haven, Connecticut, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-935868-45-3   
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  Reference for: Heteroconger   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Eschmeyer, William N.  
  Publication Date: 1990   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Genera of Recent Fishes   
  Page(s): iii + 697   
  Publisher: California Academy of Sciences   
  Publication Place: San Francisco, CA, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-940228-23-8   
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  Reference for: Heteroconger   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Eschmeyer, William N., ed.  
  Publication Date: 1998   
  Article/Chapter Title: Catalog of Fishes   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3   
  Page(s): 2905   
  Publisher: California Academy of Sciences   
  Publication Place: San Francisco, California, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-940228-47-5   
  Notes: Available online at http://www.jstor.org/stable/25622932   
  Reference for: Heteroconger   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Nelson, Joseph S.  
  Publication Date: 1994   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Fishes of the World, Third Edition   
  Page(s): xvii + 600   
  Publisher: John Wiley and Sons   
  Publication Place: New York, New York, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-471-54713-1   
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  Reference for: Heteroconger   
       

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