Slender shortfaced eel
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Species: | P. longus
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Panturichthys longus (Ehrenbaum, 1915)
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The slender shortfaced eel[2] (Panturichthys longus) is an eel in the family Heterenchelyidae (mud eels).[3] It was described by Ernst Ehrenbaum in 1915, originally under the genus Heterenchelys.[4] 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.[3]
References
- ^ Panturichthys longus at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ Common names for Panturichthys longus at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ a b Panturichthys longus at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ Ehrenbaum, E., 1915 [ref. 15784] Über Küstenfische von Westafrika, besonders von Kamerun. 1-85.