After Froese & Pauly, 2001 [“The Fishbase”]

<==o Aethiomastacembelus [N: 18] [FB: 20]
   |-- A. congicus (Boulenger, 1896)
   |-- A. cunningtoni (Boulenger, 1906)
   |-- A. ellipsifer (Boulenger, 1899)
   |-- A. flavidus (Matthes, 1962)
   |-- A. liberiensis (Boulenger, 1898)
   |-- A. marchei (Sauvage, 1879)
   |-- A. moeruensis (Boulenger, 1914)
   |-- A. nigromarginatus (Boulenger, 1898)
   |-- A. paucispinis (Boulenger, 1899)
   |-- A. platysoma (Poll & Matthes, 1962)
   |-- A. praensis Travers, 1992
   |-- A. robertsi Vreven & Teugels, 1996
   |-- A. sanagali (Thys van den Audenaerde, 1972)
   |-- A. sexdecimspinus (Roberts & Travers, 1986)
   |-- A. shiranus (Günther, 1896) (Malawi spinyeel)
   |-- A. signatus (Boulenger, 1905)
   |-- A. stappersii (Boulenger, 1914)
   |-- A. traversi Vreven & Teugels, 1997
   |-- A. trispinosus (Steindachner, 1911)
   `-- A. vanderwaali (Skelton, 1976) (Ocellated spiny eel)

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