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Overview |
Main identification features
- nostrils: front nontubular, rear in mouth
- dorsal fin origin on head
- tail: less than 1/2 total length tip hard, blunt, finless
- groove under snout
- no pectoral; gill opening low
GORDIICHTHYS
HORSEHAIR EELS
Body very elongate, cylindrical; tail 41-48% of total length, with a blunt tip; snout short, overhanging; underside of snout with a central groove that sometimes exposes protruding teeth; jaws short, lower jaw not reaching front nostril; lips without barbels; teeth small, conical, in single series on jaws; eye small; front nostril not protruding but may partly set off by a curved groove on the underside of the snout; rear nostril a vertical slit at level of eye opening into mouth; gill opening crescentic, low on side; dorsal fin origin on head; median fins low, extending nearly to tail tip; no pectoral fins; lateral line extends nearly to tip of tail.
A neotropical to warm temperate genus with 6 species; one in the eastern Pacific and endemic to our region.
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References |
- Böhlke, E. B., 1989., Fishes of the Western North Atlantic., Sears Foundation for Marine Research1:655pp.
- McCosker , J. E. and Böhlke, J. E., 1984., A review of the snake eel genera Gordiichthys and Ethadophis, with descriptions of new species and comments on related atlantic bascanichthyins (Pisces: Ophichthidae)., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 136:32-44.
- McCosker , J. E. and Lavenberg, R. J., 2001., Gordiichthys combibus, a new species of eatern Pacific sand eel (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae)., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 49(Supplement 1):7-11.
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