Apterichtus

Apterichtus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Anguilliformes
Family:	Ophichthidae
Genus:	Apterichtus A. M. C. Duméril, 1806
Type species
Caecilia branderiana Lacépède, 1800
Synonyms
Caecilia Lacépède, 1800 (preoccupied) Typhlotes Fischer, 1813 Branderius Rafinesque, 1815 Apterichthys Kaup, 1856 (not available) Ophisurapus Kaup, 1856 Verma Jordan & Evermann, 1896

Apterichtus is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae.

Species

There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus:

• Apterichtus anguiformis W. K. H. Peters, 1877 (Slender finless eel)
• Apterichtus ansp J. E. Böhlke, 1968 (Academy eel)
• Apterichtus australis J. E. McCosker & J. E. Randall, 2005 (Snake eel)
• Apterichtus caecus Linnaeus, 1758 (European finless eel)
• Apterichtus dunalailai J. E. McCosker & Hibino, 2015 ^[1]
• Apterichtus equatorialis G. S. Myers & Wade, 1941 (Finless eel)
• Apterichtus flavicaudus Snyder, 1904
• Apterichtus gracilis Kaup, 1856
• Apterichtus hatookai Hibino, Shibata & Kimura, 2014 (Orange blotched eel) ^[2]
• Apterichtus jeffwilliamsi J. E. McCosker & Hibino, 2015 ^[1]
• Apterichtus kendalli C. H. Gilbert, 1891 (Western Atlantic finless eel)
• Apterichtus klazingai M. C. W. Weber, 1913 (Sharpsnout snake eel)
• Apterichtus malabar J. E. McCosker & Hibino, 2015 ^[1]
• Apterichtus monodi C. Roux, 1966
• Apterichtus moseri D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1901
• Apterichtus mysi J. E. McCosker & Hibino, 2015 ^[1]
• Apterichtus nariculus J. E. McCosker & Hibino, 2015 ^[1]
• Apterichtus orientalis Machida & Ohta, 1994

References

1. McCosker, J.E. & Hibino, Y. (2015): A review of the finless snake eels of the genus Apterichtus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), with the description of five new species. Zootaxa, 3941 (1): 49–78.
2. Hibino, Y., Shibata, J.-y. & Kimura, S. (2014): Description of a new snake eel, Apterichtus hatookai sp. nov. (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), from the Pacific coast of Japan. Ichthyological Research, 61 (4): 317-321.