Tarpon- en aalachtigen (Elopomorpha) vormen een superorde van straalvinnige vissen. Een gemeenschappelijk kenmerk is het leptocephalus-stadium van de larven.[1][2][3][4][5]
- ↑ Giant Leptocephali Blog Lord Geekington
- ↑ Castle, P. H. J. 1959. A Large Leptocephalid (Teleosti, Apodes) from off South Westland, New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society Society of New Zealand 87, 179-184
- ↑ Figueroa, Daniel E. et al. (2007). The southernmost record of notacanthiform Tiluropsis leptocephali, with notes on possible species identity. Marine Biodiversity Records 1. DOI: 10.1017/S1755267207005805.
- ↑ Inoue, Jun G. et al. 2004. Mitogenomic evidence for the monophyly of elopomorph fishes (Teleostei) and the evolutionary origin of the leptocephalus larvae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32, 274-286.
- ↑ Smith, David G. 1970. Notacanthiform Leptocephali in the Western North Atlantic. Copeia 1970, 1-9.