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Saurenchelys
Sign in to saveSaurenchelys is a genus of eels in the duckbill eel family Nettastomatidae.
Species
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderAnguilliformes
- FamilyNettastomatidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 166
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Nettastomatidae
- Collections
- NMV, USNM, CAS, SIO, LACM, BPBM
- Recorded in
- Australia, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, Indonesia, Peru, Taiwan, Costa Rica
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Saurenchelys is a genus of eels in the duckbill eel family Nettastomatidae.
==Species== There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus: Saurenchelys cancrivora W. K. H. Peters, 1864 (slender sorcerer) Saurenchelys cognita D. G. Smith, 1989 (long-face wire eel) Saurenchelys elongata (Kotthaus, 1968) Saurenchelys fierasfer (D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1901) (black-tail duckbill eel) Saurenchelys finitima (Whitley, 1935) (Whitsunday wire eel) Saurenchelys gigas J. Lin, D. G. Smith & K. T. Shao, 2015 (giant duckbill eel) Saurenchelys lateromaculata (D'Ancona, 1928) Saurenchelys meteori Klausewitz & Zajonz, 2000 Saurenchelys petersi F. Day, 1878 Saurenchelys stylura (E. H. M. Lea, 1913) (pillar wire eel) Saurenchelys taiwanensis Karmovskaya, 2004
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