Cutthroat eel

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Cutthroat eels
Muddy arrowtooth eel, Ilyophis brunneus. From plate 43 of Oceanic Ichthyology by G. Brown Goode and Tarleton H. Bean, published 1896.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Anguilliformes Family: Synaphobranchidae
Genera
See text.

Cutthroat eels are a family, Synaphobranchidae, of eels, the only member of the suborder Synaphobranchoidei. They are native to the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.

[edit] Genera and species

There are 36 species in 12 genera:

• Genus Atractodenchelys
• Genus Diastobranchus
  • Basketwork eel, Diastobranchus capensis
• Genus Dysomma
  • Dysomma anguillare
  • Dysomma longirostrum
  • Dysomma melanurum
• Genus Dysommina
• Genus Haptenchelys
• Genus Histiobranchus
  • Deepwater arrowtooth eel, Histiobranchus bathybius
  • Bruun's cutthroat eel, Histiobranchus bruuni
• Genus Ilyophis
  • Muddy arrowtooth eel, Ilyophis brunneus
• Genus Linkenchelys
• Genus Meadia
  • Meadia abyssalis
  • Meadia roseni
• Genus Simenchelys
  • Snubnosed eel, Simenchelys parasitica
• Genus Synaphobranchus
  • Grey cutthroat eel, Synaphobranchus affinis
• Genus Thermobiotes

In some classifications (for example, ITIS), this family is split, with Simenchelys in its own family, Simenchelyidae.

[edit] References

• "Synaphobranchidae". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. January 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.