Cutthroat eel
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Cutthroat eels are a family, Synaphobranchidae, of eels, the only members of the suborder Synaphobranchoidei. They are found worldwide in temperate and tropical seas.[1][2]
Cutthroat eels range from Template:Convert in length. They are bottom-dwelling fish, found in deep waters down to about Template:Convert.[3] They are distinguished by the presence of telescopic eyes in the larvae. In some classifications (for example, ITIS), this family is split, with Simenchelys in its own family, the Simenchelyidae.
Subfamilies and genera
Cutthroat eels are classified into the following subfamilies and genera:[4]
- Subfamily Simenchelyinae Gill, 1879 (pugnose parasitic eels)
- Simenchelys Gill, 1879
- Subfamily Ilyophinae D. S. Jordan & Davis, 1891 (arrowtooth eels or mustard eels)
- Atractodenchelys C.H. Robins & C. R. Robins, 1970
- Dysomma Alcock, 1889
- Dysommina Ginsburg, 1951
- Ilyophis Gilbert, 1891
- Linkenchelys D. G. Smith, 1989
- Meadia Böhlke, 1951
- Thermobiotes Geistdoerfer, 1991
- Subfamily Synaphobranchinae J. Y. Johnson, 1862 (cutthroat eels)
- Diastobranchus Barnard, 1923
- Haptenchelys C. H. Robins & D. M. Martin, 1976
- Histiobranchus Gill, 1883
- Synaphobranchus J. Y. Johnson, 1862
References
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