Schultzidia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Family
- Ophichthidae
- Genus
- Schultzidia
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Schultzidia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Schultzidia
Schultzidia is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. The name of this genus honors American ichthyologist Leonard Peter Schultz (1901-1986), one of the describers of the type species, Muraenichthys johnstonensis. It currently contains the following species:
- Schultzidia johnstonensis (L. P. Schultz & Woods, 1949) (Johnston snake-eel)
- Schultzidia retropinnis (Fowler, 1934) (fringe-lipped worm-eel)