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Heterenchelyidae
The Heterenchelyidae or mud eels are a small family of eels native to the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and eastern Pacific.
Panturichthys
Panturichthys is a genus of eels of the family Heterenchelyidae that occur in tropical waters along the west coast of Africa from the Gulf of Guinea to Morocco with one species known from the eastern Mediterranean near Israel. It contains the following described species:
Panturichthys fowleri
species of fish
Pacific mud eel
species of fish
Pythonichthys sanguineus
species of fish
Pythonichthys
Pythonichthys is a genus of eels of the family Heterenchelyidae that occur in tropical waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean off of Panama and in the Atlantic Ocean near the Caribbean Sea and the west coast of Africa. It contains the following described species:
Slender shortfaced eel
species of fish
Shorttailed shortfaced eel
species of fish
Panturichthys isognathus
species of fish
Longtailed shortfaced eel
species of fish

Mauritanian shortface eel
species of fish