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Main identification features
- extremely elongate, cylindrical
- d: head and neck only; no other fins
- tail less than 1/4 total length
- snout overhanging; eye minute
PHAENOMONAS
SNAKE-EELS
Extremely elongate, cylindrical; tail very short, ~30% of total length; the only fin present is a short dorsal originating on head and ending on front of body; snout overhanging, blunt, grooved below; eye minute; front nostril tubular; rear nostril under edge of top lip, inside mouth; teeth small, stout, conical, in single row on jaws; gill openings low on side, crescentic; tip of tail a hard conical point.
A circumtropical genus, except for western Atlantic and eastern Indian Ocean. This genus contains 3 species; represented by 1 endemic species in the tropical eastern Pacific.
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References |
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- Robertson , D.R. and Allen, G.A., 1996., Zoogeography of the shorefish fauna of Clipperton Atoll., Coral Reefs, 15:121-131.
- Villareal-Cavazos, A., Reyes-Bonilla, H., Bermúdez-Almada, B. and Arizpe-Covarrubias, O., 2000., Los peces del arrecife de Cabo Pulmo, Golfo de California, México: Lista sistemática y aspectos de abundancia y biogeografía., Rev. Biol. Trop., 48:413-424.
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I thank Ashley MacDonald and John Pickering, University of Georgia, for technical support in building this page.
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