Yirrkala Whitley, 1940
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5189.1.13 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7119321 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E909FD0A-FF9F-225E-F6F8-AE5B29D018BA |
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Plazi |
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Genus Yirrkala Whitley, 1940 View in CoL View at ENA
Yirrkala Whitley, 1940: 410 View in CoL
(Type species: Yirrkala chaselingi Whitley, 1940 View in CoL ; by the original designation). McCosker, 1977: 69; McCosker & Castle, 1986: 185; McCosker et al., 1989: 297; McCosker, 1999: 583; McCosker, 2011: 46; Kottelat, 2013: 47.
(Type species: Ophichthys tenuis Günther, 1870 ; by the original designation).
Diagnosis. A genus of Ophichthinae with branchiosteagal rays overlapped and caudal fin absent. Very elongate, slender and cylindrical body, snout and tail tip both pointed; anal position placed in the medium of body or slightly near the head side, in some case tail shorter than preanal length; median fins low; dorsal fin origin above or behind gill opening; pectoral fin absent; tubular anterior nostrils (AN) and posterior nostrils (PN) within upper jaw; gill opening ventrolateral to lateral; conical, pointed, and generally equal-uniserial teeth; the second temporal pore usually present ( McCosker, 1977; McCosker, 2011).
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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Yirrkala Whitley, 1940
| Chiu, Yung-Chieh, Chen, Hong-Ming & Shao, Kwang-Tsao 2022 |
Pantonora
| Smith, J. L. B. 1964: 719 |
Yirrkala
| Whitley, G. P. 1940: 410 |