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Species in the genus Caecula: [ 2 ] records

pterygera, Caecula Vahl [M.] 1794:153, Pl. 13 [Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet Kiøbenhavn v. 3 (no. 2); ref. 4482] Syntypes: ZMUC 154-155 (2) East Indies (?). Type catalog: Nielsen 1974:53 [ref. 9588]. Plate not seen. •See McCosker 1977:[ref. 6836]. •Valid as Caecula pterygera Vahl 1794 -- (Talwar & Jhingran 1991:84 [ref. 20764], Smith & McCosker 1999:1668 [ref. 24715], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S95 [ref. 27377], Zhang et al. 2010:371 [ref. 31511], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 5 [ref. 38321], McCosker 2022:108 [ref. 39686]). Current status: Valid as Caecula pterygera Vahl 1794. Ophichthidae: Ophichthinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa); southern India and Sri Lanka; China. Habitat: brackish, marine.

rostratus, Sphagebranchus Bloch [M. E.] 1795:88, Pl. 419 (fig. 2) [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 9; ref. 464] Suriname [not East Indies]. Holotype (unique): ZMB 4034. On p. 79 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 12 [ref. 21381]. See McCosker 1977:67 [ref. 6836]. •Synonym of Caecula pterygera Vahl 1794 -- (Paepke 1999:107 [ref. 24282]). Current status: Synonym of Caecula pterygera Vahl 1794. Ophichthidae: Ophichthinae. Habitat: brackish, marine.