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Callechelys  Kaup, 1856
Taxonomic Serial No.: 161426

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2004   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria   
       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   
                                  FamilyOphichthidae  – worm eels, snake eels, serpents de mer, tiesos  
                                     SubfamilyOphichthinae  – snake eels  
                                        TribeCallechelyini   
                                           GenusCallechelys Kaup, 1856  
    Direct Children:  
                                              SpeciesCallechelys bilinearis Kanazawa, 1952 – twostripe snake eel, tieso dos rayas 
                                              SpeciesCallechelys bitaeniata (Peters, 1877)  
                                              SpeciesCallechelys catostoma (Schneider and Forster in Bloch and Schneider, 1801)  
                                              SpeciesCallechelys cliffi Böhlke and Briggs, 1954 – sandy ridgefin eel, tieso aquillado arenero 
                                              SpeciesCallechelys eristigma McCosker and Rosenblatt, 1972 – spotted ridgefin eel, tieso aquillado manchado 
                                              SpeciesCallechelys galapagensis McCosker and Rosenblatt, 1972  
                                              SpeciesCallechelys guineensis (Osório, 1893) – shorttail snake eel, tieso colicorta 
                                              SpeciesCallechelys leucoptera (Cadenat, 1954)  
                                              SpeciesCallechelys lutea Snyder, 1904  
                                              SpeciesCallechelys marmorata (Bleeker, 1853) – marbled snake eel 
                                              SpeciesCallechelys muraena Jordan and Evermann, 1887 – blotched snake eel, tieso moteado 
                                              SpeciesCallechelys papulosa McCosker, 1998  
                                              SpeciesCallechelys randalli McCosker, 1998  
                                              SpeciesCallechelys springeri (Ginsburg, 1951) – ridgefin eel 
       

 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: Callechelys   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Callechelys   
       
  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: Callechelys   
       
  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: Callechelys   
       
  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: Callechelys   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Nelson, Joseph S.   
  Publication Date: 1994   
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  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: Callechelys   
       

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