Echiophis

Genus of fishes

Echiophis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Ophichthidae
Subfamily: Ophichthinae
Genus: Echiophis
Kaup, 1856
Species

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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

  • Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Echiophis". FishBase. June 2011 version.
Taxon identifiers
Echiophis


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