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Diminutive worm eel

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Species of fish

Diminutive worm eel
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Ophichthidae
Genus: Pseudomyrophis
Species: P. fugesae
Binomial name
Pseudomyrophis fugesae
McCosker, E. B. Böhlke & J. E. Böhlke, 1989

The Diminutive worm eel (Pseudomyrophis fugesae) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by John E. McCosker, Eugenia Brandt Böhlke and James Erwin Böhlke in 1989. It is a marine, temperate water-dwelling eel which is known from the western Atlantic Ocean.

References

  1. Common names for Pseudomyrophis fugesae at www.fishbase.org.
  2. ^ Pseudomyrophis fugesae at www.fishbase.org.
  3. McCosker, J. E., E. B. Böhlke and J. E. Böhlke, 1989 Family Ophichthidae (pp. 254-412). In: E. B. Böhlke (ed.) . Memoirs of the Sears Foundation of Marine Research Mem. 1 (pt 9).
Taxon identifiers
Pseudomyrophis fugesae


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