Echiophis
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Genus: | Echiophis Kaup, 1856
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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.