Echiophis | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Anguilliformes |
Family: | Ophichthidae |
Subfamily: | Ophichthinae |
Genus: | Echiophis Kaup, 1856 |
Species | |
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Echiophis is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. It currently contains the following species:
- Echiophis brunneus (Castro-Aguirre & Suárez de los Cobos, 1983) (Pacific spoon-nose eel)
- Echiophis intertinctus (J. Richardson, 1848) (Spotted spoon-nose eel)
- Echiophis punctifer (Kaup, 1860) (Stippled spoon-nose eel)
References
[edit]- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Echiophis in FishBase. June 2011 version.