Saurenchelys Explained
Saurenchelys is a genus of eels in the duckbill eel family Nettastomatidae.
Species
There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus:
- Saurenchelys cancrivora W. K. H. Peters, 1864 (slender sorcerer)
- Saurenchelys cognita D. G. Smith, 1989 (long-face wire eel)
- Saurenchelys elongata (Kotthaus, 1968)
- Saurenchelys fierasfer (D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1901) (black-tail duckbill eel)
- Saurenchelys finitima (Whitley, 1935) (Whitsunday wire eel)
- Saurenchelys gigas J. Lin, D. G. Smith & K. T. Shao, 2015 (giant duckbill eel) [1]
- Saurenchelys lateromaculata (D'Ancona, 1928)
- Saurenchelys meteori Klausewitz & Zajonz, 2000
- Saurenchelys petersi F. Day, 1878[1]
- Saurenchelys stylura (E. H. M. Lea, 1913) (pillar wire eel)
- Saurenchelys taiwanensis Karmovskaya, 2004
Notes and References
- Lin, J. . Smith, D.G. . Shao, K.-T. . Chen, H.-M. . 2015 . Saurenchelys gigas sp. nov., a new nettastomatid eel (Teleostei, Anguilliformes, Nettastomatidae) from the western central Pacific . Zootaxa . 4060 . 1 . 121–130 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4060.1.14 . 26701596 .
