''Meadia'' 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 cutthroat eel family
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 ...
. It currently contains the following species:
* ''
Meadia abyssalis''
( Kamohara, 1938) (abyssal cutthroat eel)
* ''
Meadia roseni''
H. K. Mok, C. Y. Lee & H. J. Chan, 1991
* ''
Meadia minor''
V.-Q. Vo & H.-C. Ho, 2021 (small cutthroat eel)
References
*
Ilyophinae
Taxa named by James Erwin Böhlke
Ray-finned fish genera
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