Facciolella smithi Kodeeswaran & Kumar, 2025
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Facciolella smithi Kodeeswaran & Kumar, 2025
- Name authority
- Kodeeswaran & Kumar, 2025
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Family
- Nettastomatidae
- Genus
- Facciolella
- Extinction status
- Recorded extant
Source habitat flags: Marine: yes · Freshwater: no · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- gigaclassActinopterygii
- superclassActinopteri
- classTeleostei
- orderAnguilliformes
- familyNettastomatidae Kaup, 1859
- genusFacciolella Whitley, 1938
- speciesFacciolella smithi Kodeeswaran & Kumar, 2025
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Facciolella. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Facciolella saurencheloides (D'Ancona, 1928) | NettastomatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Facciolella karrerae Klausewitz, 1995 | NettastomatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Facciolella castlei Parin & Karmovskaya, 1985 | NettastomatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Facciolella bicolor Ho, Huang & Smith, 2026 | NettastomatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Facciolella oxyrhynchus (Bellotti, 1883) | NettastomatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- Kodeeswaran, P., & Kumar, T. T. A. (2025). Facciolella smithi, a new species of deep-water nettastomatid eel (Anguilliformes: Nettastomatidae) from the Arabian Sea. Zootaxa, 5653. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5653.4.7 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:V4WX3. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.