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Diminutive worm eel
Scientific 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).

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