Freshwater snake-eel
| Freshwater snake-eel | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Ophichthidae |
| Genus: | Lamnostoma |
| Species: | L. kampeni |
| Binomial name | |
| Lamnostoma kampeni (Weber & de Beaufort, 1916) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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The Freshwater snake-eel[2] (Lamnostoma kampeni) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels).[3] It was described by Max Carl Wilhelm Weber and Lieven Ferdinand de Beaufort in 1916.[4] It is a tropical, freshwater eel which is known from Asia and Oceania, including New Caledonia, New Guinea, the Philippines, and Vanuatu. Males can reach a maximum total length of 41 centimetres.[3]
References
- ↑ Synonyms of Lamnostoma kampeni at www.fishbase.org.
- ↑ Common names for Lamnostoma kampeni at www.fishbase.org.
- 1 2 Lamnostoma kampeni at www.fishbase.org.
- ↑ Weber, M. and L. F. de Beaufort, 1916 [ref. 4604] The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. III. Ostariophysi: II Cyprinoidea, Apodes, Synbranchi. E. J. Brill, Leiden. v. 3: i-xv + 1-455.
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