Echiophis

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Echiophis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Ophichthidae
Genus: Echiophis
Kaup, 1856
Species

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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 creutzbergi (Cadenat, 1956) (Spoon-nose eel)
  • Echiophis intertinctus (J. Richardson, 1848) (Spotted spoon-nose eel)
  • Echiophis punctifer (Kaup, 1860) (Stippled spoon-nose eel)

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