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Longtailed shortfaced eel

The longtailed shortfaced eel is an eel in the family Heterenchelyidae. It was described by Charles Tate Regan in 1912, originally under the genus Heterenchelys. It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from coastal waters ranging from Sierra Leone to Angola, in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Males can reach a maximum total length of 80 centimetres.

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Longtailed shortfaced eel
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Heterenchelyidae
Genus: Pythonichthys
Species:
P. macrurus
Binomial name
Pythonichthys macrurus
(Regan, 1912)
Synonyms1
  • Heterenchelys macrurus Regan, 1912

The longtailed shortfaced eel2 (Pythonichthys macrurus) is an eel in the family Heterenchelyidae (mud eels).3 It was described by Charles Tate Regan in 1912, originally under the genus Heterenchelys.1 It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from coastal waters ranging from Sierra Leone to Angola, in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Males can reach a maximum total length of 80 centimetres.3

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References

  1. Synonyms of Pythonichthys macrurus at www.fishbase.org.
  2. Common names for Pythonichthys macrurus at www.fishbase.org.
  3. Pythonichthys macrurus at www.fishbase.org.