Slender finless eel

Slender finless eel
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Ophichthidae
Genus: Apterichtus
Species: A. anguiformis
Binomial name
Apterichtus anguiformis
Synonyms[1]
  • Ophichthys anguiformis W. K. H. Peters, 1877
  • Verma anguiformis (W. K. H. Peters, 1877)
  • Apterichthus anguiformis (Peters, 1877)

The slender finless eel[2] (Apterichtus anguiformis) is a species of snake eel (family Ophichthidae).[3] It was described by Wilhelm Peters in 1877.[4] It is a marine, subtropical eel which is known from the eastern Atlantic Ocean, including the western Mediterranean Sea, Morocco, and Cape Verde. It dwells at a depth range of 10 to 40 metres (33 to 131 ft) and inhabits burrows formed in sand and mud sediments on the continental shelf. Males can reach a maximum total length of 49.3 centimetres (19.4 in).[3]

References

  1. ↑ Synonyms of Apterichtus anguiformis at www.fishbase.org.
  2. ↑ Common names for Apterichtus anguiformis at www.fishbase.org.
  3. 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). "Apterichtus anguiformis" in FishBase. February 2014 version.
  4. ↑ Peters, W. (C. H.), 1877 [ref. 3454] Übersicht der während der von 1874 bis 1876 unter der Commando des Hrn. Capitän z. S. Freiherrn von Schleinitz ausgeführten Reise S. M. S. Gazelle gesammelten und von der Kaiserlichen Admiralität der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften übersandten Fische. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preuss[ischen] Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1876: 831-854.


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