Slender shortfaced eel

Slender shortfaced eel
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Heterenchelyidae
Genus: Panturichthys
Species: P. longus
Binomial name
Panturichthys longus
(Ehrenbaum, 1915)
Synonyms[1]
  • Heterenchelys longus Ehrenbaum, 1915

The slender shortfaced eel[2] (Panturichthys longus) is an eel in the family Heterenchelyidae (mud eels).[3] It was described by Ernst Ehrenbaum in 1915, originally under the genus Heterenchelys.[4] It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from Benin to Angola in the Gulf of Guinea, in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Males can reach a maximum total length of 149 centimetres.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Panturichthys longus at www.fishbase.org.
  2. ↑ Common names for Panturichthys longus at www.fishbase.org.
  3. 1 2 Panturichthys longus at www.fishbase.org.
  4. ↑ Ehrenbaum, E., 1915 [ref. 15784] Über Küstenfische von Westafrika, besonders von Kamerun. 1-85.
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