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Ordinary eel

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Ordinary eel
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Ophichthidae
Genus: Ethadophis
Species:
E. byrnei
Binomial name
Ethadophis byrnei
Rosenblatt & McCosker, 1970

The Ordinary eel[1] (Ethadophis byrnei, also known as the Ordinary snake-eel[2]) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels).[3] It was described by Richard Heinrich Rosenblatt and John E. McCosker.[4] It is a marine, subtropical eel which is known from a single specimen collected from a sandbank in the Gulf of California, in the eastern central Pacific Ocean, during low tide. From the holotype, it is known to reach a total length of 51 centimetres (20 in).[3]

The IUCN redlist currently lists the Ordinary eel as Data Deficient due to the extremely limited number of described specimens, but notes that its habitat falls into a region of threat from coastal development.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Common names of Ethadophis byrnei at www.fishbase.org.
  2. ^ a b Ethadophis byrnei at the IUCN redlist.
  3. ^ a b Ethadophis byrnei at www.fishbase.org.
  4. ^ Rosenblatt, R. H. and J. E. McCosker, 1970 [ref. 3809] A key to the genera of the ophichthid eels, with descriptions of two new genera and three new species from the eastern Pacific. Pacific Science v. 24 (no. 4): 494-505.