Diminutive worm eel
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| Diminutive worm eel | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Ophichthidae |
| Genus: | Pseudomyrophis |
| Species: | P. fugesae
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| Binomial name | |
| Pseudomyrophis fugesae McCosker, E. B. Böhlke & J. E. Böhlke, 1989
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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
[edit]- ^ Common names for Pseudomyrophis fugesae at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ a b Pseudomyrophis fugesae at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ 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).
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