Deepwater arrowtooth eel

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Deepwater arrowtooth eel
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Synaphobranchidae
Genus: Histiobranchus
Species:
H. bathybius
Binomial name
Histiobranchus bathybius
(Günther, 1877)

The deepwater arrowtooth eel, Histiobranchus bathybius, is a cutthroat eel of the genus Histiobranchus , found globally.

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