Callechelys: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Family
- Ophichthidae
- Genus
- Callechelys
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Callechelys
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Callechelys
Callechelys is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. It currently contains the following fifteen species:
- Callechelys bilinearis Kanazawa, 1952 (twostripe snake eel)
- Callechelys bitaeniata (W. K. H. Peters, 1877)
- Callechelys catostoma (J. G. Schneider & J. R. Forster, 1801) (black-striped snake eel)
- Callechelys cliffi J. E. Böhlke & Briggs, 1954 (sandy ridgefin eel)
- Callechelys eristigma McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1972 (spotted ridgefin eel)
- Callechelys galapagensis McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1972
- Callechelys guineensis (Osório, 1893) (shorttail snake eel)
- Callechelys leucoptera (Cadenat, 1954)
- Callechelys lutea Snyder, 1904 (yellow-spotted snake eel)
- Callechelys maculatus Y. T. Chu, H. L. Wu & X. B. Jin, 1981
- Callechelys marmorata (Bleeker, 1853) (marbled snake eel)
- Callechelys muraena D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1887 (blotched snake eel)
- Callechelys papulosa McCosker, 1998
- Callechelys randalli McCosker, 1998
- Callechelys springeri (Ginsburg, 1951) (ridgefin eel)
Callechelys in languages:
- English
- Ridgefin Eels
- Japanese
- ヒモウミヘビ属
- Russian
- Каллехелисы
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Allips
- Aplatophis
- Aprognathodon
- Apterichtus
- Bascanichthys
- Brachysomophis
- Caecula
- Callechelys
- Caralophia
- Chauligenion
- Cirrhimuraena
- Cirricaecula
- Dalophis
- Echelus
- Echiophis
- Ethadophis
- Evips
- Gordiichthys
- Hemerorhinus
- Herpetoichthys
- Hyphalophis
- Ichthyapus
- Kertomichthys
- Lamnostoma
- Leiuranus
- Leptenchelys
- Letharchus
- Lethogoleos
- Leuropharus
- Luthulenchelys
- Malvoliophis
- Myrichthys
- Mystriophis
- Ophichthus
- Ophisurus
- Paraletharchus
- Phaenomonas
- Phyllophichthus
- Pisodonophis
- Quassiremus
- Rhinophichthus
- Scytalichthys
- Stictorhinus
- Suculentophichthus
- Xestochilus
- Xyrias
- Yirrkala
Child Taxa
- Callechelys bilinearis
- Callechelys bitaeniata
- Callechelys catostoma
- Callechelys cliffi
- Callechelys eristigma
- Callechelys galapagensis
- Callechelys guineensis
- Callechelys kuro
- Callechelys leucoptera
- Callechelys lutea
- Callechelys maculatus
- Callechelys marmorata
- Callechelys muraena
- Callechelys papulosa
- Callechelys randalli
- Callechelys springeri




