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Ophichthus zophochir
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Ophichthus zophochir

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Ophichthus zophochir
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Ophichthus zophochir
Ophichthus zophochir
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Ophichthus zophochir

Ophichthus frontalis
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Ophichthus frontalis
Ophichthus melope
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Ophichthus melope

Ophichthus longipenis
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Ophichthus longipenis
Ophichthus longipenis
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Ophichthus longipenis

Ophichthus mecopterus
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Ophichthus mecopterus
Ophichthus remiger
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Ophichthus remiger

Ophichthus apachus
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Ophichthus apachus
Ophichthus frontalis
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Ophichthus frontalis

Ophichthus melope
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Ophichthus melope
Ophichthus melope
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Ophichthus melope

Ophichthus triserialis
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Ophichthus triserialis
Ophichthus triserialis
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Ophichthus triserialis

Ophichthus
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Ophichthus
Kinds
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Overview
Main identification features
  • snout pointed, overhanging;eye over center mouth
  • d: origin over/behind pectoral
  • tail: greater than 1/2 total length tip hard, finless, blunt
  • mouth large; teeth pointed
  • pectoral moderate, base less than gill opening
OPHICHTHUS

SNAKE-EELS

Tip of tail a hard finless point; pectoral fins well developed, with restricted bases - opposite and above upper half of gill opening; teeth variable in number and size but never canine-like; dorsal origin above or behind gill opening; tail longer than head and trunk; body cylindrical stouter than tail; eye moderate to large, about over middle of mouth; front nostril tubular under overhanging snout; rear nostril opens just above lip or in mouth.

A circumglobal tropical to warm temperate genus with about 60 species; with 8 shallow water endemics (plus three deeper endemics) in our region.


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