Echelus
Echelus is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae.
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| Genus: | Echelus Rafinesque, 1810 |
Species
There are currently 4 recognized species in this genus:
- Echelus myrus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Painted eel)
- Echelus pachyrhynchus (Vaillant, 1888)
- Echelus polyspondylus J. E. McCosker & H. C. Ho, 2015 (Many-vertebrae snake eel) [1]
- Echelus uropterus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) (Finned snake eel)
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References
- McCosker, J.E. & Ho, H.-C. (2015). "New species of the snake eels Echelus and Ophichthus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from Taiwan" (PDF). Zootaxa. 4060 (1): 71–85.
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