''Dysomma'' is a
genus
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of
marine ray-finned fish
Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...
es belonging to the
family
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Synaphobranchidae
Cutthroat eels are a family, Synaphobranchidae, of eels, the only members of the suborder Synaphobranchoidei. They are found worldwide in temperate and tropical seas.
Cutthroat eels range from in length. They are bottom-dwelling fish, found in ...
, the cutthroat eels. These eels are found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Species
There are currently 21 recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Dysomma achiropteryx''
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, 2019
* ''
Dysomma alticorpus''
Fricke, Golani, Appelbaum-Golani & Zajonz, 2018 (pale cutthroat eel)
* ''
Dysomma anguillare''
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, 1923 (short-belly arrowtooth eel)
* ''
Dysomma brachygnathos''
H. C. Ho & Tighe, 2018 (short-jaw cutthroat eel)
* ''
Dysomma brevirostre''
( Facciolà, 1887) (pig-nosed arrowtooth eel)
* ''
Dysomma bucephalus''
Alcock, 1889
* ''
Dysomma bussarawiti''
Prokofiev, 2019
* ''
Dysomma dolichosomatum''
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, 1982
* ''
Dysomma formosa''
H. C. Ho & Tighe, 2018 (white cutthroat eel)
* ''
Dysomma fuscoventralis''
Karrer & Klausewitz, 1982
* ''
Dysomma goslinei''
C. H. Robins & C. R. Robins, 1976
* ''
Dysomma intermedium''
Vo & Ho, 2024
* ''
Dysomma longirostrum''
Y. Y. Chen & H. K. Mok, 2001
* ''
Dysomma melanurum''
J. S. T. F. Chen & H. T. C. Weng, 1967
* ''
Dysomma muciparus''
(Alcock, 1891)
* ''
Dysomma opisthoproctus''
Y. Y. Chen & H. K. Mok, 1995
* ''
Dysomma phuketense''
Prokofiev, 2019
* ''
Dysomma polycatodon''
Karrer, 1982
* ''
Dysomma robinsorum''
H. C. Ho & Tighe, 2018 (Robinses' cutthroat eel)
* ''
Dysomma taiwanensis''
H. C. Ho, D. G. Smith & Tighe, 2015 (Taiwanese arrowtooth eel)
* ''
Dysomma tridens''
C. H. Robins, E. B. Böhlke & C. R. Robins, 1989
References
Ilyophinae
Ray-finned fish genera
Taxa named by Alfred William Alcock
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