Monopterus

Monopterus is a genus of swamp eels native to Asia.[2] They live in various freshwater habitats and some have a fossorial lifestyle.[3]

Monopterus
Monopterus albus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Synbranchiformes
Family: Synbranchidae
Subfamily: Synbranchinae
Genus: Monopterus
Lacépède, 1800
Type species
Monopterus javanicus
Synonyms[1]
  • Amphipnous Müller, 1840
  • Apterigia Basilewsky, 1855
  • Cryptophthalmus Franz, 1910
  • Fluta Bloch & Schneider, 1801
  • Ophicardia McClelland, 1844
  • Pneumabranchus McClelland, 1843
  • Unagius Jordan, 1919

Species

There are currently 4 recognized species in this genus:

  • Monopterus albus (Zuiew, 1793) (Asian swamp eel)
  • Monopterus bicolor H. D. Nguyễn & V. H. Nguyễn, 2005
  • Monopterus dienbienensis V. H. Nguyễn & H. D. Nguyễn, 2005
  • Monopterus javanensis Lacépède, 1800

6 species from South Asia (M. cuchia, M. desilvai, M. hodgarti, M. fossorius, M. ichthyophoides, M. indicus) have been reclassified to the genus Ophichthys.[4] 4 fossorial or subterranean species (M. digressus, M. eapeni, M. rongsaw, and M. roseni) from India have been reclassified to the genus Rakthamichthys.[5] Two species from Africa (M. boueti and M. luticolus) have been reclassified to the genus Typhlosynbranchus.[5]

References
  1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Synbranchidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Monopterus in FishBase. March 2017 version.
  3. Britz, R., Doherty-Bone, T.M., Kouete, M.T., Sykes, D. & Gower, D.J. (2016): Monopterus luticolus, a new species of swamp eel from Cameroon (Teleostei: Synbranchidae). Archived 2016-12-24 at the Wayback Machine Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 27 (4): 309-323.
  4. "Ophichthys desilvai, a poorly known synbranchid eel from Sri Lanka (Teleostei: Synbranchidae)". Pfeil Verlag (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-29.
  5. "Osteology of 'Monopterus' roseni with the description of Rakthamichthys, new genus, and comments on the generic assignment of the Amphipnous Group species (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes)". Dr. Friedrich Pfeil Publishing. Retrieved 2021-01-28.


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