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Callechelys
Sign in to saveCallechelys is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. It currently contains the following fifteen species:
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Within Vinony's link graph, Callechelys is referenced by 20 other articles, and connects out to Ophichthidae, Animalia and species.
It is catalogued under topics including Actinopterygii genera, Callechelys and Ophichthinae.
Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderAnguilliformes
- FamilyOphichthidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 69
- With media
- 6
- Family
- Ophichthidae
- Collections
- USNM, CAS, UMMZ, TNHC, BPBM, FMNH
- Recorded in
- Trinidad And Tobago, United States, Mexico, Ecuador, Wallis And Futuna, Philippines, Marshall Islands, Israel
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Ophichthidae
- Image
- Callechelysmarmorata.jpg
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- Commons category
- Callechelys
- taxon name
- Callechelys
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Callechelys
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Encyclopedic overview
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Callechelys is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. It currently contains the following fifteen species: Callechelys bilinearis Kanazawa, 1952 (twostripe snake eel) Callechelys bitaeniata (W. K. H. Peters, 1877) Callechelys catostoma (J. G. Schneider & J. R. Forster, 1801) (black-striped snake eel) Callechelys cliffi J. E. Böhlke & Briggs, 1954 (sandy ridgefin eel) Callechelys eristigma McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1972 (spotted ridgefin eel) Callechelys galapagensis McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1972 Callechelys guineensis (Osório, 1893) (shorttail snake eel) Callechelys leucoptera (Cadenat, 1954) Callechelys lutea Snyder, 1904 (yellow-spotted snake eel) Callechelys maculatus Y. T. Chu, H. L. Wu & X. B. Jin, 1981 Callechelys marmorata (Bleeker, 1853) (marbled snake eel) Callechelys muraena D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1887 (blotched snake eel) Callechelys papulosa McCosker, 1998 Callechelys randalli McCosker, 1998 Callechelys springeri (Ginsburg, 1951) (ridgefin eel)
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Callechelys” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.