Avocettina

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 125638ITIS 161614GBIF 2403709key worms:125638

2026-08-05: itis_id 161614 via WoRMS external link

Avocettina is a genus of eels in the snipe-eel family Nemichthyidae. It currently contains the following species:Avocettina acuticeps (Regan, 1916) Avocettina bowersii (Garman, 1899) Avocettina infans (Günther, 1878) Avocettina paucipora J. G. Nielsen & D. G. Smith, 1978…W CalCOFI holds 6 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1998 and 2012, across 2 taxa under it.R

6
observations: 6
records: 1998–2012
years: 2
datasets: 2
species under it

Photo · D. ROSS ROBERTSON, ARTURO ANGULO, CAROLE C. BALDWIN, DIANE PITASSY, AMY DRISKELL, LEE WEIGT, IGNACIO J.F. NAVARRO · CC BY 3.0 · commons

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Avocettina infans most observed, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125638")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Under it 2 taxa · Avocettina infans most observed

sp Avocettina infans Blackline snipe eel4
sp Avocettina bowersii Smalleye snipe eel2

Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Nemichthyidae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Monognathus · source
Photo · D. ROSS ROBERTSON, ARTURO ANGULO, CAROLE C. BALDWIN, DIANE PITASSY, AMY DRISKELL, LEE WEIGT, IGNACIO J.F. NAVARRO · CC BY 3.0 · commons · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Avocettina” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1256363314

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

Wikidata iNaturalist

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

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