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Diminutive worm eel

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Diminutive worm eel
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Ophichthidae
Genus: Pseudomyrophis
Species:
P. fugesae
Binomial name
Pseudomyrophis fugesae
McCosker, E. B. Böhlke & J. E. Böhlke, 1989

The Diminutive worm eel[1] (Pseudomyrophis fugesae) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels).[2] It was described by John E. McCosker, Eugenia Brandt Böhlke and James Erwin Böhlke in 1989.[3] It is a marine, temperate water-dwelling eel which is known from the western Atlantic Ocean.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Common names for Pseudomyrophis fugesae at www.fishbase.org.
  2. ^ a b Pseudomyrophis fugesae at www.fishbase.org.
  3. ^ McCosker, J. E., E. B. Böhlke and J. E. Böhlke, 1989 [ref. 13288] Family Ophichthidae (pp. 254-412). In: E. B. Böhlke (ed.) [ref. 13282]. Memoirs of the Sears Foundation of Marine Research Mem. 1 (pt 9).