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Taxon: Family Anguillidae Rafinesque, 1810 - freshwater eels (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  Rafinesque, 1810, orth. corr.
Original name & rank:  Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice Ittiol. Sicil.: 37 ("Ordine. Gli Anguillidi."). [family, nom. vernac.]. ≡
Latinized name:  Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse: 91 ("S. F. Anguillinia."). ≡
Latinized name:  Jarocki, F.P. 1822. Zoologiia 4: tbls. XXXIV (p. 326: "Familiae"), XXXVI (p. 343). ("Anguilliformes").
Subsequent spelling: 
Source for the authorship:  van der Laan, R., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fricke, R. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 30 ("Rafinesque 1810").

Attributes

Available family-group name, later latinized [ICZN, 1999: Art. 11.7.2 (<1900)] Ref: R. van der Laan et al. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 30 ("Article 11.7.2").
Justified emendation of suffix (: orth. corr.) [ICZN, 1999: Arts. 29.2, 34.1 (family)] Ref: R. van der Laan et al. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 30. [inferred]

Types

Type: Anguilla (Genus) Schrank, 1798 Ref: R. Fricke et al. (eds.), 2021: 9 Apr 2025. [implicit]

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: zoetwateralen
: palingen Ref: B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: freshwater eels Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 152; ECoF(4 Feb 2025).
: freshwater eels Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2452.
: eels Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979: 682.
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