Snake Eels - Family: Ophichthidae
Subfamily: Bathymyrinae
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Short-finned Worm Eel - Scolecenchelys australis
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Subfamily: Ophichthinae
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Finned Worm Eel - Echelus uropterus
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Leiuranus sp.
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Half-band Snake Eel - Malvoliophis pinguis
Banded Snake Eel - Myrichthys colubrinus (possible occurrence)
Tiger Snake Eel - Myrichthys maculosus
Allen's Snake Eel - Ophichthus alleni
Giant Snake Eel - Ophisurus serpens
Taxonomy:
Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
> Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
> Class: Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
> Superorder: Elopomorpha (Tarpons, Eels and Allies)
> Order: Anguilliformes (True Eels)
> Suborder: Congroidei (True Eels)
> Family: Ophichthidae (Snake Eels)
> Subfamily: Bathymyrinae (Bathymyrine Congers)
> Genus: Scolecenchelys
> Species: S. australis - Short-finned Worm Eel
> Subfamily: Ophichthinae
> Genus: Echelus
> Species: E. uropterus - Finned Worm Eel
> Genus: Leiuranus
> Species: ?
> Genus: Malvoliophis
> Species: M. pinguis - Half-band Snake Eel
> Genus: Myrichthys
> Species: M. colubrinus - Banded Snake Eel ^
> Species: M. maculosus - Tiger Snake Eel
> Genus: Ophichthus
> Species: O. alleni - Allen's Snake Eel
> Genus: Ophisurus
> Species: O. serpens - Giant Snake Eel
^ = possibly
* = likely
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