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Gymnotiformes
Rafinesque, 1810
- American knifefishes
(fish)
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Entity:
Siluriphysi
..Siluriformes (Order) - catfishes
..Gymnotiformes (Order) - American knifefishes
....[Electrophoridae] (Family) - electric knifefishes
....Gymnotoidei (Suborder)
....Sternopygoidei (Suborder)
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
C.S. Rafinesque Schmaltz, 1810
Original name
:
Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice d'Ittiol. Sicil.
: 37.
Original rank
:
loc. cit.
Subsequent spelling
:
Berg, 1940.
[assumed]
Types
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]
:
Gymnotidae
(Family)
Rafinesque, 1815
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]
:
Gymnotoidei
(Suborder)
Rafinesque, 1810
Ref:
E.O. Wiley & G.D. Johnson, 2010
: 140.
[implicit]
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
American knifefishes
Ref:
J.S. Nelson, 2006
: 186.
:
knifefishes
Ref:
W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998
: 2463.
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