Lamnostoma
Appearance
Lamnostoma | |
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Lamnostoma kampeni | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Anguilliformes |
Family: | Ophichthidae |
Genus: | Lamnostoma Kaup, 1856 |
Species | |
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Lamnostoma is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. It currently contains the following species:
- Lamnostoma kampeni (M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1916) (Freshwater snake-eel)
- Lamnostoma mindora (D. S. Jordan & R. E. Richardson, 1908)
- Lamnostoma orientalis (McClelland, 1844) (Oriental worm-eel)
- Lamnostoma polyophthalma (Bleeker, 1853) (Ocellated sand-eel)
- Lamnostoma taylori (Herre, 1923)
References
[edit]- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Lamnostoma". FishBase. June 2011 version.