Freshwater snake-eel

Freshwater snake-eel
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Ophichthidae
Genus: Lamnostoma
Species: L. kampeni
Binomial name
Lamnostoma kampeni
(Weber & de Beaufort, 1916)
Synonyms[1]
  • Brachysomophis kampeni Weber & de Beaufort, 1916
  • Achirophichthys kampeni (Weber & de Beaufort, 1916)

The Freshwater snake-eel[2] (Lamnostoma kampeni) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels).[3] It was described by Max Carl Wilhelm Weber and Lieven Ferdinand de Beaufort in 1916.[4] It is a tropical, freshwater eel which is known from Asia and Oceania, including New Caledonia, New Guinea, the Philippines, and Vanuatu. Males can reach a maximum total length of 41 centimetres.[3]

References

  1. Synonyms of Lamnostoma kampeni at www.fishbase.org.
  2. Common names for Lamnostoma kampeni at www.fishbase.org.
  3. 1 2 Lamnostoma kampeni at www.fishbase.org.
  4. Weber, M. and L. F. de Beaufort, 1916 [ref. 4604] The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. III. Ostariophysi: II Cyprinoidea, Apodes, Synbranchi. E. J. Brill, Leiden. v. 3: i-xv + 1-455.
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