Echiophis Punctifer
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''Echiophis'' is a genus of
eel Eels are ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes (), which consists of eight suborders, 20 families, 164 genera, and about 1000 species. Eels undergo considerable development from the early larval stage to the eventual adult stage ...
s in the snake eel family
Ophichthidae Ophichthidae is a family (biology), family of fish in the order (biology), order Anguilliformes, commonly known as the snake eels. The term "Ophichthidae" comes from Greek language, Greek ''ophis'' ("serpent") and ''ichthys'' ("fish"). Snake eels ...
. It currently contains the following species: * '' Echiophis brunneus'' ( Castro-Aguirre & Suárez de los Cobos, 1983) (Pacific spoon-nose eel) * '' Echiophis intertinctus'' ( J. Richardson, 1848) (Spotted spoon-nose eel) * '' Echiophis punctifer'' ( Kaup, 1860) (Stippled spoon-nose eel)


References

* Ophichthinae Taxa named by Johann Jakob Kaup {{Anguilliformes-stub