Ophichthidae is a family of fish in the order Anguilliformes, commonly known as the snake eels. The term "Ophichthidae" comes from Greek ophis ("serpent")...
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Echelus is a genus of eels in the snake-eel family Ophichthidae. There are currently 4 recognized species in this genus: Echelus myrus (Linnaeus, 1758)...
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Family Derichthyidae Gill, 1884 (longneck eels or narrowneck eels) Family Ophichthidae Günther, 1870 (snake eels and worm eels) Subfamily Myrophinae Kaup, 1856...
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Ophichthus lentiginosus is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by John E. McCosker in 2010. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling...
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Congroidei Colocongridae (Shorttail eels) Derichthyidae (Longneck eels) Ophichthidae (Snake eels) Muraenesocidae (Pike congers) Nettastomatidae (Duckbill...
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Ophichthus is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. There are currently around 80 recognized species in this genus: Ophichthus alleni J...
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Stictorhinus potamius is a species of freshwater eel in the family Ophichthidae. It is the only member of its genus. It is found in the major river basins...
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Apterichtus is a genus of fish in the family Ophichthidae (snake eels). Many of its species are called finless eels. The name literally means "finless...
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Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Anguilliformes Family: Ophichthidae Genus: Myrichthys Species: M. colubrinus Binomial name Myrichthys colubrinus...
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Snaggle-toothed snake-eel (category Ophichthidae stubs)
snaggle-toothed snake-eel (Aplatophis zorro) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae. It was described by John E. McCosker and David Ross Robertson in 2001...
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Congroidei Colocongridae (Shorttail eels) Derichthyidae (Longneck eels) Ophichthidae (Snake eels) Muraenesocidae (Pike congers) Nettastomatidae (Duckbill...
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snake eel or the spotted snake eel, is a species of fish in the family Ophichthidae, native to the Indo-Pacific. It is occasionally encountered in the aquarium...
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stargazer snake eel, is a benthic marine fish belonging to the family Ophichthidae. The stargazer snake eel is a large fish which grows up to 159 cm (63 in)...
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Xyrias chioui is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by John E. McCosker, Chen Wei-Li and Chen Hong-Ming in 2009. It...
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Pisodonophis hijala is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton in 1822, originally under the...
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Dottedline snake eel (category Ophichthidae stubs)
dottedline snake eel (Ophichthus omorgmus) is a species of eels in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by John E. McCosker and Eugenia Brandt...
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Myrophinae (category Ophichthidae)
worm eels, is a subfamily of ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Ophichthidae, which also includes the snake eels in the subfamily Ophichthinae. Myrophinae...
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Pisodonophis copelandi is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Albert William Herre in 1953. It is a marine, tropical...
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freckled snake eel or yellow-spotted snake eel, is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by John Otterbein Snyder in 1904...
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Ophisurus is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. It currently contains the following species: Ophisurus macrorhynchos Bleeker, 1853 Ophisurus...
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Ophichthus kunaloa is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by John E. McCosker in 1979. It is a marine, temperate water-dwelling...
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Congroidei Colocongridae (Shorttail eels) Derichthyidae (Longneck eels) Ophichthidae (Snake eels) Muraenesocidae (Pike congers) Nettastomatidae (Duckbill...
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Quassiremus polyclitellum is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Peter Henry John Castle in 1996. It is a marine,...
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Bascanichthys inopinatus (category Ophichthidae stubs)
Bascanichthys inopinatus, the unexpected snake eel, is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by John E. McCosker, Eugenia Brandt...
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Congroidei Colocongridae (Shorttail eels) Derichthyidae (Longneck eels) Ophichthidae (Snake eels) Muraenesocidae (Pike congers) Nettastomatidae (Duckbill...
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The speckled worm-eel, Myrophis punctatus, is a member of the Ophichthidae (snake eel) family. It was described by Christian Frederik Lütken in 1852. M...
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Ophichthus limkouensis is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Johnson T. F. Chen in 1929. It is a marine, tropical...
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Ophichthus hirritus is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by John E. McCosker in 2010. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling...
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Xestochilus is a genus of eel in the family Ophichthidae. The genus contains one species being Xestochilus nebulosus, nebulosus snake eel. X. nebulosus...
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Odontaspididae Odontobutidae Ogcocephalidae Olyridae Omosudidae Oneirodidae Ophichthidae Ophidiidae Opisthoproctidae Opistognathidae Oplegnathidae Orectolobidae...
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