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Subfamily of fishes

Synbranchinae

Synbranchus marmoratus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Synbranchiformes
Family:	Synbranchidae
Subfamily:	Synbranchinae Bonaparte, 1835

Synbranchinae is a subfamily of swamp eel, consisting of six of the ten genera in the family Synbranchidae. The remaining genus, the monotypic Macrotrema is the only one in the other subfamily Macrotreminae. The subfamily occurs in the Neotropics, Afrotropics and Asia.

Genera

The following genera are classified in the Synbranchinae:

Monopterus Lacepède, 1800
Ophichthys Swainson, 1839
Rakthamichthys Britz, Dahanukar, Standing, Philip, Kumar & Raghavan, 2020
Typhlosynbranchus Pellegrin, 1922
Synbranchus Bloch, 1795
Ophisternon McClelland, 1844

References

Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 380. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Synbranchidae". FishBase. August 2019 version.
"Ophichthys desilvai, a poorly known synbranchid eel from Sri Lanka (Teleostei: Synbranchidae)". Pfeil Verlag (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-28.
"Osteology of 'Monopterus' roseni with the description of Rakthamichthys, new genus, and comments on the generic assignment of the Amphipnous Group species (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes)". Pfeil Verlag (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-28.