Snack eel
| Snack eel | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Ophichthidae |
| Genus: | Ethadophis |
| Species: | E. merenda |
| Binomial name | |
| Ethadophis merenda Rosenblatt & McCosker, 1970 | |
The Snack eel[1] (Ethadophis merenda) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/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.[4]
References
- ↑ Common names of Ethadophis merenda at www.fishbase.org.
- 1 2 Ethadophis merenda at www.fishbase.org.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Ethadophis merenda at the IUCN redlist.
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