After Nelson, 1994, with Recent species from Froese & Pauly, 2001 [“The Fishbase”]
<==o Ophichthyinae (snake eels; käärmeankeriaat) [41/210] |--o Apterichthys [Verma] ()? [12] | |-- A. anguiformis (Peters, 1877) (Slender finless eel) | |-- A. ansp (Böhlke, 1968) (Academy eel) | |-- A. caecus (Linnaeus, 1758) (European finless eel) | |-- A. equatorialis (Myers & Wade, 1941) (Finless eel) | |-- A. flavicaudus (Snyder, 1904) | |-- A. gracilis (Kaup, 1856) | |-- A. kendalli (Gilbert, 1891) (Western Atlantic finless eel) | |-- A. keramanus Machida, Hashimoto & Yamakawa, 1997 | |-- A. klazingai (Weber, 1913) (Sharpsnout snake eel) | |-- A. monodi (Roux, 1966) | |-- A. moseri (Jordan & Snyder, 1901) | `-- A. orientalis Machida & Ohta, 1994 |--o Bascanichthys ()? [16] | |-- B. bascanium (Jordan, 1884) (Sooty eel) | |-- B. bascanoides Osburn & Nichols, 1916 (Sooty sand-eel) | |-- B. ceciliae Blache & Cadenat, 1971 | |-- B. congoensis Blache & Cadenat, 1971 | |-- B. cylindricus Meek & Hildebrand, 1923 (Round sand-eel) | |-- B. deraniyagalai Menon, 1961 (Indian longtailed sand-eel) | |-- B. fijiensis (Seale, 1935) | |-- B. filaria (Günther, 1872) | |-- B. inopinatus McCosker, Böhlke & Böhlke, 1989 | |-- B. kirkii (Günther, 1870) (Longtailed sand-eel) | |-- B. longipinnis (Kner & Steindachner, 1867) | |-- B. myersi (Herre, 1932) | |-- B. panamensis Meek & Hildebrand, 1923 (Panama sand-eel) | |-- B. paulensis Storey, 1939 | |-- B. scuticaris (Goode & Bean, 1880) (Whip eel) | `-- B. sibogae (Weber, 1913) |--o Caecula Mioc. Eu. R. Oc. [Sphagebranchus] ()? [1 Recent species] | `-- C. pterygera Vahl, 1794 (Finny snake eel) |--o Callechelys ()? [14] | |-- C. bilinearis Kanazawa, 1952 (Twostripe snake eel) | |-- C. bitaeniata (Peters, 1878) | |-- C. catostoma (Schneider & Forster, 1801) (Black-striped snake eel) | |-- C. cliffi Böhlke & Briggs, 1954 (Sandy ridgefin eel) | |-- C. eristigma McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1972 (Spotted ridgefin eel) | |-- C. galapagensis McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1998 | |-- C. guineensis (Osório, 1893) (Shorttail snake eel) | |-- C. leucoptera (Cadenat, 1954) | |-- C. lutea Snyder, 1904 (Yellow-spotted snake eel) | |-- C. marmorata (Bleeker, 1853) (Marbled snake eel) | |-- C. muraena Jordan & Evermann, 1887 (Blotched snake eel) | |-- C. papulosa McCosker, 1998 | |-- C. randalli McCosker, 1998 | `-- C. springeri (Ginsburg, 1951) (Ridgefin eel) |--o Cirrhimuraena ()? [7] | |-- C. calamus (Günther, 1870) | |-- C. cheilopogon (Bleeker, 1860) | |-- C. chinensis Kaup, 1856 | |-- C. inhacae (Smith, 1962) (Inhaca fringelip) | |-- C. oliveri (Seale, 1910) | |-- C. playfairii (Günther, 1870) (Fringelip snake-eel) | `-- C. tapeinopterus Bleeker, 1863 |--o Dalophis ()? [5] | |-- D. boulengeri (Blache, Cadenat & Stauch, 1970) | |-- D. cephalopeltis (Bleeker, 1863) | |-- D. imberbis (Delaroche, 1809) (Armless snake eel) | |-- D. multidentatus Blache & Bauchot, 1972 | `-- D. obtusirostris Blache & Cadenat, 1972 |--o Echelus ()? [2] | |-- E. myrus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Painted eel) | `-- E. pachyrhynchus (Vaillant, 1888) |--o Echiophis ()? [4] | |-- E. brunneus (Castro-Aguirre & Suárez de los Cobos, 1983) (Pacific spoon-nose eel) | |-- E. creutzbergi (Cadenat, 1956) (Spoon-nose eel) | |-- E. intertinctus (Richardson, 1848) (Spotted spoon-nose eel) | `-- E. punctifer (Kaup, 1860) (Stippled spoon-nose eel) |--o Ethadophis ()? [5] | |-- E. akkistikos McCosker & Böhlke, 1984 | |-- E. byrnei Rosenblatt & McCosker, 1970 (Ordinary eel) | |-- E. epinepheli (Blache & Bauchot, 1972) | |-- E. foresti (Cadenat & Roux, 1964) | `-- E. merenda Rosenblatt & McCosker, 1970 (Snack eel) |-- †Goslinophis acuticaudus M. Eoc. Eu. |--o Lamnostoma ()? [Nelson: 4 species] [FB: 5] | |-- L. kampeni (Weber & de Beaufort, 1916) (Freshwater snake-eel) | |-- L. mindora (Jordan & Richardson, 1908) | |-- L. orientalis (McClelland, 1844) (Oriental worm-eel) | |-- L. polyophthalma (Bleeker, 1853) (Ocellated sand-eel) | `-- L. taylori (Herre, 1923) |--o Letharchus ()? [3] | |-- L. aliculatus McCosker, 1974 | |-- L. rosenblatti McCosker, 1974 (Sailfin snake-eel) | `-- L. velifer Goode & Bean, 1882 (American sailfin eel) |--o Myrichthys ()? [11] | |-- M. aki Tanaka, 1917 | |-- M. aspetocheiros McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1993 (Longfin spotted snake-eel) | |-- M. bleekeri Gosline, 1951 | |-- M. breviceps (Richardson, 1848) (Sharptail eel) | |-- M. colubrinus (Boddaert, 1781) (Harlequin snake-eel) | |-- M. maculosus (Cuvier, 1816) (Tiger snake-eel) | |-- M. magnificus (Abbott, 1861) (Magnificent snake-eel) | |-- M. ocellatus (Lesueur, 1825) (Goldspotted eel) | |-- M. pardalis (Valenciennes, 1839) (Leopard eel) | |-- M. tigrinus Girard, 1859 (Spotted snake-eel) | `-- M. xysturus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) |--o Mystriophis ?Mioc. NZ. R. Oc. | |-- M. crosnieri Blache, 1971 | |-- M. porphyreus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) | `-- M. rostellatus (Richardson, 1848) (African spoon-nose eel) |-- Ophichthus Eoc. Eu. R. Oc. ()? [55] |--o Phaenomonas ()? [3] | |-- P. cooperae Palmer, 1970 (Short-maned sand-eel) | |-- P. longissimus (Cadenat & Marchal, 1963) (Short-maned Sand Eel) | `-- P. pinnata Myers & Wade, 1941 (Elastic eel) |--o Pisodonophis ()? [7] | |-- P. boro (Hamilton, 1822) (Rice-paddy eel) | |-- P. cancrivorus (Richardson, 1848) (Longfin snake-eel) | |-- P. copelandi Herre, 1953 | |-- P. daspilotus Gilbert, 1898 (Marble-toothed snake-eel) | |-- P. hoevenii (Bleeker, 1853) (Hoeven's snake eel) | |-- P. hypselopterus (Bleeker, 1851) | `-- P. semicinctus (Richardson, 1848) |--o Yirrkala ()? [7] | |-- Y. gjellerupi (Weber & de Beaufort, 1916) | |-- Y. insolitus McCosker, 1999 | |-- Y. kaupii (Bleeker, 1858) | |-- Y. lumbricoides (Bleeker, 1853) Earthworm snake-eel | |-- Y. macrodon (Bleeker, 1863) | |-- Y. maculatus (Chu, Wu & Jin, 1981) | `-- Y. tenuis (Günther, 1870) Thin sand-eel `== other 24 genera [Nelson, 1994]
Reference(s):
- Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698 - Carroll, R. L., 1988: Appendix. 594-648
in Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698 - Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds), 2001: FishBase.
–iNet: www.fishbase.org - Nelson, J. S., 1994: Fishes of the world.
–John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 1994, xx-600