''Strophidon'' is a genus of

eels Eels are ray-finned fish belonging to the order (biology), order Anguilliformes (), which consists of eight suborders, 20 Family (biology), families, 164 genus, genera, and about 1000 species. Eels undergo considerable development from the earl ...

in the family

Muraenidae Moray eels, or Muraenidae (), are a family of eels whose members are found worldwide. There are approximately 200 species in 15 genera which are almost exclusively marine, but several species are regularly seen in brackish water, ...

. The genus has a wide distribution throughout the

Pacific 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 the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is bounded by the cont ...

and Indian Oceans where they mostly inhabit the

benthic zone The benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean, lake, or stream, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers. The name comes from the Ancient Greek word (), meaning "the depths". ...

Species

The following species in ''Strophidon'' are recognized by

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: * '' Strophidon dorsalis'' * ''

Strophidon sathete The slender giant moray or Gangetic moray, ''Strophidon sathete'', is the longest member of the family of moray eels. It is in the genus '' Strophidon''. The longest recorded specimen was caught in 1927, on the Maroochy River in Queensland; it m ...

'' Three other species, ''S. dawydoffi'', ''S. tetraporus'', and ''S. ui'', have been described but not presently accepted by FishBase.

References

Muraenidae Ray-finned fish genera Taxa named by John McClelland (doctor) Taxa described in 1944 {{muraenidae-stub