Snack eel
| Snack eel | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Ophichthidae |
| Genus: | Ethadophis |
| Species: | E. merenda
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| Binomial name | |
| Ethadophis merenda Rosenblatt & McCosker, 1970
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The Snack eel (Ethadophis merenda) is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ophichthidae, the worm and snake eels.[2] It was described by Richard Heinrich Rosenblatt and John E. McCosker in 1970.[3] It is a marine, subtropical eel which is known from a single specimen discovered in Mexico, in the eastern central Pacific Ocean. From the holotype, which was found in the stomach of a White seabass, males are known to reach a total length of 53 centimetres (21 in).[2]
Due to the lack of multiple known specimens, and thereby an inability to acquire data on the ecology, habitat or threats faced by the species, the IUCN redlist currently lists the Snack eel as Data Deficient.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b McCosker, J.E.; Béarez, P. & Lea, R.N. (2017) [errata version of 2010 assessment]. "Ethadophis merenda". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T154941A115254381. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T154941A115254381.en. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Ethadophis merenda". FishBase. June 2024 version.
- ^ Rosenblatt, R. H. and J. E. McCosker, 1970 [ref. 3809] A key to the genera of the ophichthid eels, with descriptions of two new genera and three new species from the eastern Pacific. Pacific Science v. 24 (no. 4): 494-505.
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