THE NATURAL-HISTORY CATALOGUE
A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Ophichthidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Chauligenion camelopardalis McCosker & Okamoto, 2016 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cirrhimuraena calamus (Günther, 1870) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cirrhimuraena cheilopogon (Bleeker, 1860) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cirrhimuraena chinensis Kaup, 1856 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cirrhimuraena oliveri (Seale, 1910) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cirrhimuraena orientalis Nguyen, 1993 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| fringelip snake-eelCirrhimuraena playfairii (Günther, 1870) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cirricaecula johnsoni Schultz, 1953 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dalophis boulengeri (Blache, Cadenat & Stauch, 1970) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dalophis cephalopeltis (Bleeker, 1863) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dalophis imberbis (Delaroche, 1809) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dalophis multidentatus Blache & Bauchot, 1972 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echelus pachyrhynchus (Vaillant, 1888) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echelus polyspondylus McCosker & Ho, 2015 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echelus uropterus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| fangjaw eelEchiophis brunneus (Castro-Aguirre & Suárez de los Cobos, 1983) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| spotted spoon-nose eelEchiophis intertinctus (Richardson, 1848) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| snapper eelEchiophis punctifer (Kaup, 1859) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| ordinary eelEthadophis byrnei Rosenblatt & McCosker, 1970 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| snack eelEthadophis merenda Rosenblatt & McCosker, 1970 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Evips percinctus McCosker, 1972 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Glenoglossa wassi McCosker, 1982 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gordiichthys combibus McCosker & Lavenberg, 2001 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| irksome eelGordiichthys ergodes McCosker, Böhlke & Böhlke, 1989 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| horsehair eelGordiichthys irretitus Jordan & Davis, 1891 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| sooty eelGordiichthys leibyi McCosker & Böhlke, 1984 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gordiichthys randalli McCosker & Böhlke, 1984 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hemerorhinus heyningi (Weber, 1913) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hemerorhinus opici Blache & Bauchot, 1972 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| mustachioed snake eelHerpetoichthys fossatus (Myers & Wade, 1941) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hyphalophis devius McCosker & Böhlke, 1982 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| surf eelIchthyapus ophioneus (Evermann & Marsh, 1900) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| smiling sand eelIchthyapus selachops (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kertomichthys blastorhinos (Kanazawa, 1963) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lamnostoma kampeni (Weber & de Beaufort, 1916) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lamnostoma mindora (Jordan & Richardson, 1908) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lamnostoma orientale (McClelland, 1844) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lamnostoma polyophthalmus (Bleeker, 1853) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Leptenchelys vermiformis Myers & Wade, 1941 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Leptocephalus ophichthoides D'Ancona, 1928 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| black sailfin eelLetharchus rosenblatti McCosker, 1974 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| sailfin eelLetharchus velifer Goode & Bean, 1882 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Luthulenchelys heemstraorum McCosker, 2007 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Malvoliophis pinguis (Günther, 1872) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mixomyrophis longidorsalis Hibino, Kimura & Golani, 2014 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mixomyrophis pusillipinna McCosker, 1985 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Muraenichthys elerae Fowler, 1934 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Muraenichthys gymnopterus (Bleeker, 1853) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Muraenichthys philippinensis Schultz & Woods, 1949 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Muraenichthys schultzei Bleeker, 1857 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.