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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ophichthus cylindroideus (Ranzani, 1839) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus erabo (Jordan & Snyder, 1901) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus exourus McCosker, 1999 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus fasciatus (Chu, Wu & Jin, 1981) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus fowleri (Jordan & Evermann, 1903) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| deathbanded snake eelOphichthus frontalis Garman, 1899 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus genie McCosker, 1999 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| shrimp eelOphichthus gomesii (Castelnau, 1855) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus grandoculis (Cantor, 1849) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus hirritus McCosker, 2010 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus humanni McCosker, 2010 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| faintsaddled snake eelOphichthus hyposagmatus McCosker & Böhlke, 1984 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus ishiyamorum McCosker, 2010 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus kailashchandrai Mohapatra, Ray, Mohanty & Mishra, 2020 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus kunaloa McCosker, 1979 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus kusanagi Hibino, McCosker & Tashiro, 2019 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus lentiginosus McCosker, 2010 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus leonensis Blache, 1975 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus limkouensis Chen, 1929 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus lithinus (Jordan & Richardson, 1908) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus longicorpus Vo & Ho, 2021 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| slender snake eelOphichthus longipenis McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1998 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus machidai McCosker, Ide & Endo, 2012 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus macrochir (Bleeker, 1853) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus macrops Günther, 1910 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus maculatus (Rafinesque, 1810) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus manilensis Herre, 1923 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| shorthead snake-eelOphichthus marginatus (Peters, 1855) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus mccoskeri Sumod, Hibino, Manjabrayakath & Sanjeevan, 2019 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus megalops Asano, 1987 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| blackpored eelOphichthus melanoporus Kanazawa, 1963 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus melope McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1998 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus menezesi McCosker & Böhlke, 1984 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus microstictus McCosker, 2010 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus mystacinus McCosker, 1999 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus nguyenorum Vo, Hibino & Ho, 2025 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus obtusus McCosker, Ide & Endo, 2012 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus olivaceus McCosker & Bogorodsky, 2020 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| dottedline snake eelOphichthus omorgmus McCosker & Böhlke, 1984 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| spotted snake eelOphichthus ophis (Linnaeus, 1758) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| many-eyed snake-eelOphichthus polyophthalmus Bleeker, 1864 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| palespotted eelOphichthus puncticeps (Kaup, 1859) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus remiger (Valenciennes, 1837) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus retrodorsalis Liu, Tang & Zhang, 2010 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| king snake eelOphichthus rex Böhlke & Caruso, 1980 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus roseus Tanaka, 1917 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus rotundus Lee & Asano, 1997 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus rufus (Rafinesque, 1810) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus rugifer Jordan & Bollman, 1890 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus rutidoderma (Bleeker, 1852) | 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.