Echiophis
| Echiophis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Ophichthidae |
| Subfamily: | Ophichthinae |
| Genus: | Echiophis Kaup, 1856 |
| Type species | |
| Ophisurus intertinctus Richardson, 1848 | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms | |
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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; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Echiophis". FishBase. June 2011 version.
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