Monopterus
| Monopterus | |
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| Monopterus albus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Synbranchiformes |
| Family: | Synbranchidae |
| Subfamily: | Synbranchinae |
| Genus: | Monopterus Lacépède, 1800 |
| Type species | |
| Monopterus javanicus Lacépède, 1800
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Monopterus is a genus of swamp eels mainly native to Asia, but with two species in Africa.[2][3] They live in various freshwater habitats and some have a fossorial lifestyle.[3] Three species, M. eapeni, M. digressus and M. roseni, live in underground waters.[4]
Species
There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus:
- Monopterus albus (Zuiew, 1793) (Asian swamp eel)
- Monopterus bicolor H. D. Nguyễn & V. H. Nguyễn, 2005
- Monopterus boueti (Pellegrin, 1922) (Liberian swamp eel)
- Monopterus cuchia (F. Hamilton, 1822) (Gangetic swamp eel)
- Monopterus desilvai R. M. Bailey & Gans, 1998 (Lesser swamp eel)
- Monopterus dienbienensis V. H. Nguyễn & H. D. Nguyễn, 2005
- Monopterus digressus K. C. Gopi, 2002
- Monopterus eapeni Talwar, 1991
- Monopterus fossorius (K. K. Nayar, 1951) (Malabar swamp eel)
- Monopterus hodgarti (B. L. Chaudhuri, 1913) (Indian swamp eel)
- Monopterus ichthyophoides Britz, Lalremsanga, Lalrotluanga & Lalramliana, 2011 [5]
- Monopterus indicus (Silas & E. Dawson, 1961) (Bombay swamp eel)
- Monopterus javanensis Lacépède, 1800
- Monopterus luticolus Britz, Doherty-Bone, Kouete, D. Sykes & Gower, 2016 [3]
- Monopterus roseni R. M. Bailey & Gans, 1998
- Monopterus rongsaw Britz, D. Sykes, Gower, & Kamei, 2018 [6]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Monopterus". FishBase. March 2017 version.
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ Gopi, K.C. (2002). A new synbranchid fish, Monopterus digressus from Kersla, Peninsular India. Rec. zool. Surv. India 100(1-2) : 137-143.
- ^ Britz, R., Lalremsanga, H.T., Lalrotluanga & Lalramliana (2011): Monopterus ichthyophoides, a new species of scaled swamp eel (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes: Synbranchidae) from Mizoram, India. Zootaxa, 2936: 51–58.
- ^ "Monopterus rongsaw, a new species of hypogean swamp eel from the Khasi Hills in Northeast India (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes: Synbranchidae) – Pfeil Verlag". pfeil-verlag.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-03-04.
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