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Callechelys is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. It currently contains the following fifteen species:

Species

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GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassTeleostei
  4. OrderAnguilliformes
  5. FamilyOphichthidae
Habitatmarine

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Specimen records
69
With media
6
Family
Ophichthidae
Collections
USNM, CAS, UMMZ, TNHC, BPBM, FMNH
Recorded in
Trinidad And Tobago, United States, Mexico, Ecuador, Wallis And Futuna, Philippines, Marshall Islands, Israel

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Ophichthidae
Image
Callechelysmarmorata.jpg
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Commons category
Callechelys
taxon name
Callechelys
taxon rank
genus
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Category:Callechelys
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Callechelys is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. It currently contains the following fifteen species: Callechelys bilinearis Kanazawa, 1952 (twostripe snake eel) Callechelys bitaeniata (W. K. H. Peters, 1877) Callechelys catostoma (J. G. Schneider & J. R. Forster, 1801) (black-striped snake eel) Callechelys cliffi J. E. Böhlke & Briggs, 1954 (sandy ridgefin eel) Callechelys eristigma McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1972 (spotted ridgefin eel) Callechelys galapagensis McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1972 Callechelys guineensis (Osório, 1893) (shorttail snake eel) Callechelys leucoptera (Cadenat, 1954) Callechelys lutea Snyder, 1904 (yellow-spotted snake eel) Callechelys maculatus Y. T. Chu, H. L. Wu & X. B. Jin, 1981 Callechelys marmorata (Bleeker, 1853) (marbled snake eel) Callechelys muraena D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1887 (blotched snake eel) Callechelys papulosa McCosker, 1998 Callechelys randalli McCosker, 1998 Callechelys springeri (Ginsburg, 1951) (ridgefin eel)

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