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Mastacembelus erythrotaenia Bleeker, 1850

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Bleeker, P. (1850). Bijdrage tot de kennis der Notacanthini van den Soenda-Molukschen Archipel. <em>Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen.</em> v. 23 (no. 5): 1-6.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Synbranchiformes
family
Mastacembelidae
genus
Mastacembelus
species
Mastacembelus erythrotaenia

Name

Synonyms
Macrognathus erythrotaenia (Bleeker, 1850)
Mastacembelus argus Günther, 1861
Homonyms
Mastacembelus erythrotaenia Bleeker, 1850
Common names
Fire eel in English
Fire spiny eel in English
Ildsnabelål in Danish
Pla Kating Fai in language.
Spiny Eel in English
Tilan kelokoi in Malay
fire eel in English
fire eel in language.
hrotočelec ohnivý in Czech
spotted fire eel in English
spotted fire eel in English
ปลากระทิงลายดอกไม้ in Thai
ปลากระทิงไฟ in Thai
ត្រីខ្ជឹងផ្កា in Central Khmer
Spiny Eel in English
Pla Kating Fai in Thai

Bibliographic References

  1. Bleeker, P. (1850). Bijdrage tot de kennis der Notacanthini van den Soenda-Molukschen Archipel. <em>Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen.</em> v. 23 (no. 5): 1-6.
  2. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  3. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  4. Riehl, R., and H. A. Baensch, 1989: null. Aquarium Atlas. 992.
  5. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1991: World Fishes Important to North Americans Exclusive of Species from the Continental Waters of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 21. 243.
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