Biology:Freshwater snake-eel

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Short description: Species of fish

Freshwater snake-eel
Lamnostoma kampeni.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Ophichthidae
Genus: Lamnostoma
Species:
L. kampeni
Binomial name
Lamnostoma kampeni
(Weber & de Beaufort, 1916)
Synonyms[1]
  • Brachysomophis kampeni Weber & de Beaufort, 1916
  • Achirophichthys kampeni (Weber & de Beaufort, 1916)

The freshwater snake-eel[2] (Lamnostoma kampeni) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels).[3] It was described by Max Carl Wilhelm Weber and Lieven Ferdinand de Beaufort in 1916.[4] It is a tropical, freshwater eel which is known from Asia and Oceania, including New Caledonia, New Guinea, the Philippines , and Vanuatu. Males can reach a maximum total length of 41 centimetres.[3]

References

  1. Synonyms of Lamnostoma kampeni at www.fishbase.org.
  2. Common names for Lamnostoma kampeni at www.fishbase.org.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Lamnostoma kampeni at www.fishbase.org.
  4. Weber, M. and L. F. de Beaufort, 1916 [ref. 4604] The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. III. Ostariophysi: II Cyprinoidea, Apodes, Synbranchi. E. J. Brill, Leiden. v. 3: i-xv + 1-455.

Wikidata ☰ Q5600896 entry