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Echiophis
Sign in to saveEchiophis is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. It currently contains the following species:
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderAnguilliformes
- FamilyOphichthidae
Habitatmarine
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 12
- Family
- Ophichthidae
- Collections
- SIO, TCWC, CAS, LACM, UF, MNHN
- Recorded in
- Panama, Mexico, United States, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Guyane Francaise
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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==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Echiophis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.