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Slender shortfaced eel
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Anguilliformes
Family:	Heterenchelyidae
Genus:	Panturichthys
Species:	P. longus
Binomial name
Panturichthys longus (Ehrenbaum, 1915)
Synonyms
Heterenchelys longus Ehrenbaum, 1915

The slender shortfaced eel (Panturichthys longus) is an eel in the family Heterenchelyidae (mud eels). It was described by Ernst Ehrenbaum in 1915, originally under the genus Heterenchelys. It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from Benin to Angola in the Gulf of Guinea, in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Males can reach a maximum total length of 149 centimetres.

References

1. Panturichthys longus at www.fishbase.org.
2. Common names for Panturichthys longus at www.fishbase.org.
3. ^ Panturichthys longus Archived 2013-04-12 at archive.today at www.fishbase.org.
4. Ehrenbaum, E., 1915 Über Küstenfische von Westafrika, besonders von Kamerun. 1-85.

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