''Spectrunculus'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of
cusk-eels found in the
Atlantic
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and
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...
s.
Species
There are currently two recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Spectrunculus crassus''
( Vaillant, 1888)
* ''
Spectrunculus grandis''
( Günther, 1877) (Pudgy cusk-eel)
References
Ophidiidae
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