Clarion snake eel

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Clarion snake eel
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Ophichthidae
Genus: Myrichthys
Species:
M. pantostigmius
Binomial name
Myrichthys pantostigmius

The Clarion snake eel [2] (Myrichthys pantostigmius) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). [3] It was described by David Starr Jordan and Ernest Alexander McGregor in 1898. [4] It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from Mexico, in the eastern central Pacific Ocean. [3] [1] It inhabits shallow waters - at a maximum depth of 20 metres - and is found around rocks and sand. Males can reach a maximum total length of 49.4 centimetres (19.4 in). [3]

Following an assessment carried out on 22 May 2007, due to a lack of known threats and a lack of observed population decline, the Clarion snake eel was listed in the IUCN redlist as Least Concern in 2010. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 McCosker, J.; Béarez, P.; and Lea, B. (2010). "Myrichthys pantostigmius". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2010 e.T183905A8197556. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T183905A8197556.en . Retrieved 13 November 2024.
  2. ↑ "Common names for Myrichthys pantostigmius". fishbase.org.
  3. 1 2 3 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Myrichthys pantostigmius". FishBase .
  4. ↑ Jordan, D. S.; B. W. Evermann (26 November 1898). "The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America north of the Isthmus of Panama". Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 47 (Part III): 2183a–3136.
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