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The king snake eel [1] (Ophichthus rex) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). [2] It was described by James Erwin Böhlke and John H. Caruso in 1980. [3] It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from Florida to Texas, USA, in the northern Gulf of Mexico in the western Atlantic Ocean. It dwells at a depth range of 15 to 365 ...
Aplatophis chauliodus, the fangtooth snake-eel, also known as the tusky eel in Cuba and the United States, [1] is an eel in the family Ophichthidae. [2] It was described by James Erwin Böhlke in 1956. [3] It is a marine, tropical eel known from the western Atlantic Ocean, including the Gulf of Mexico and French Guiana.
Ophichthidae is a family of fish in the order Anguilliformes, commonly known as the snake eels. The term "Ophichthidae" comes from Greek ophis ("serpent") and ichthys ("fish"). Snake eels are also burrowing eels. They are named for their physical appearance, as they have long, cylindrical, snake-like bodies. [2]
Gulf butterfish: Peprilus burti: Gulf chimaera: Hydrolagus alberti: Gulf Coast pygmy sunfish: Elassoma gilberti: Gulf flounder: Paralichthys albigutta: Gulf killifish: Fundulus grandis: Gulf kingfish Menticirrhus littoralis: Gulf menhaden: Brevoortia patronus: Gulf of Mexico fringed sole: Gymnachirus texae: Gulf pipefish: Syngnathus scovelli ...
The spotted snake eel (Myrichthys tigrinus), also known as the tiger snake eel or the spotted tiger snake eel, [2] is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). [3] It was described by Charles Frédéric Girard in 1859.
Fish of the Gulf of California (1 C, 73 P) Pages in category "Fish of Mexican Pacific coast" ... Longarmed snake eel; M. Malacoctenus ebisui; Malacoctenus hubbsi;
Myrichthys xysturus is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). [3] It was described by David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert in 1882, originally under the genus Ophichthys. [4]
Ophichthus rufus (Rafinesque, 1810) (Rufus snake eel) Ophichthus rugifer D. S. Jordan & Bollman, 1890; Ophichthus rutidoderma (Bleeker, 1853) (Olive snake eel) Ophichthus serpentinus Seale, 1917; Ophichthus shaoi J. E. McCosker & H. C. Ho, 2015 (Long-bodied snake eel) [1] Ophichthus singapurensis Bleeker, 1864; Ophichthus spinicauda (Norman ...