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Ophisternon
Sign in to saveOphisternon is a genus of swamp eels found in fresh and brackish waters in South and Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, Middle America and West Africa. Two species are blind cave-dwellers.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderSynbranchiformes
- FamilySynbranchidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 130
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Synbranchidae
- Collections
- ECOSUR, CAS, UF, UMMZ, USNM, QM
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Palau, United States, Vietnam, Philippines, Costa Rica, Australia
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- Parent taxon
- Synbranchidae
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- Ophisternon bengalense Day.jpg
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Ophisternon is a genus of swamp eels found in fresh and brackish waters in South and Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, Middle America and West Africa. Two species are blind cave-dwellers.
Well-preserved fossil remains of an Ophisternon sp. are known from the early Pleistocene-aged Laguna Formation of the Philippines, representing the oldest known fossil record of this genus.
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