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Shorttailed shortfaced eel

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Shorttailed shortfaced eel
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Heterenchelyidae
Genus: Pythonichthys
Species: P. microphthalmus
Binomial name
Pythonichthys microphthalmus
(Regan, 1912)
Synonyms
  • Heterenchelys microphthalmus Regan, 1912

The shorttailed shortfaced eel (Pythonichthys microphthalmus) is an eel in the family Heterenchelyidae (mud eels). It was described by Charles Tate Regan in 1912, originally under the genus Heterenchelys. It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from Mauritania to Angola, in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. It typically dwells at a depth range of 40–150 metres. Males can reach a maximum total length of 50.5 centimetres.

References

  1. Synonyms of Pythonichthys micropthalmus at www.fishbase.org.
  2. Common names for Pythonichthys microphthalmus at www.fishbase.org.
  3. ^ Pythonichthys microphthalmus at www.fishbase.org.
  4. Regan, C. T., 1912 (1 Sept.) Description of two new eels from West Africa, belonging to a new genus and family. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 8) v. 10 (no. 57): 323-324.
Taxon identifiers
Pythonichthys microphthalmus


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