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 |
|---|---|---|
| Muraenichthys sibogae Weber & de Beaufort, 1916 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Muraenichthys thompsoni Jordan & Richardson, 1908 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| longfin spotted snake eelMyrichthys aspetocheiros McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1993 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| sharptail eelMyrichthys breviceps (Richardson, 1848) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| harlequin snake-eelMyrichthys colubrinus (Boddaert, 1781) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| tiger snake-eelMyrichthys maculosus (Cuvier, 1816) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Myrichthys magnificus (Abbott, 1860) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| goldspotted eelMyrichthys ocellatus (Lesueur, 1825) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Clarion snake eelMyrichthys pantostigmius Jordan & McGregor, 1898 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Myrichthys pardalis (Valenciennes, 1839) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| tiger snake eelMyrichthys tigrinus Girard, 1859 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Myrichthys xysturus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Myrophis anterodorsalis McCosker, Böhlke & Böhlke, 1989 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Myrophis lepturus Kotthaus, 1968 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Myrophis microchir (Bleeker, 1864) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| broadnose worm eelMyrophis platyrhynchus Breder, 1927 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Myrophis plumbeus (Cope, 1871) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| speckled worm eelMyrophis punctatus Lütken, 1852 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pacific worm eelMyrophis vafer Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mystriophis caboverdensis Da Luz, Lopes, Jimenez & Psomadakis, 2025 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mystriophis crosnieri Blache, 1971 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mystriophis rostellatus (Richardson, 1848) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Neenchelys andamanensis Hibino, Satapoomin & Kimura, 2015 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Neenchelys buitendijki Weber & de Beaufort, 1916 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Neenchelys cheni (Chen & Weng, 1967) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Neenchelys daedalus McCosker, 1982 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Neenchelys gracilis Ho & Loh, 2015 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Neenchelys mccoskeri Hibino, Ho & Kimura, 2012 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Neenchelys microtretus Bamber, 1915 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Neenchelys parvipectoralis Chu, Wu & Jin, 1981 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Neenchelys pelagica Ho, McCosker & Smith, 2015 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Neenchelys similis Ho, McCosker & Smith, 2015 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus acutidens Samucidine & Bogorodsky, 2026 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus alleni McCosker, 2010 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus altipennis (Kaup, 1856) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus aniptocheilos McCosker, 2010 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| thin snake eelOphichthus apachus McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1998 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus aphotistos McCosker & Chen, 2000 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| bluntnose snake-eelOphichthus apicalis (Anonymous [Bennett], 1830) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus arneutes McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1998 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus asakusae Jordan & Snyder, 1901 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus bicolor McCosker & Ho, 2015 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus bonaparti (Kaup, 1856) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus brachynotopterus Karrer, 1983 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus brasiliensis (Kaup, 1856) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus brevirostris McCosker & Ross, 2007 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus celebicus (Bleeker, 1856) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus cephalozona Bleeker, 1864 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus congroides McCosker, 2010 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| margined snake eelOphichthus cruentifer (Goode & Bean, 1896) | 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.