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 semilunatus Hibino & Chiu, 2019 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus serpentinus Seale, 1917 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus shaoi McCosker & Ho, 2015 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus singapurensis Bleeker, 1864-65 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus spinicauda (Norman, 1922) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus stenopterus Cope, 1871 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus tchangi Tang & Zhang, 2002 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus tetratrema McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1998 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus tomioi McCosker, 2010 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pacific snake eelOphichthus triserialis (Kaup, 1856) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus tsuchidae Jordan & Snyder, 1901 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus unicolor Regan, 1908 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus urolophus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus vietnamensis Vo, Hibino & Ho, 2019 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus woosuitingi Chen, 1929 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophichthus yamakawai Hibino, McCosker & Tashiro, 2019 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| yellow snake eelOphichthus zophochir Jordan & Gilbert, 1882 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| pouch snake eelParaletharchus opercularis (Myers & Wade, 1941) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pacific sailfin eelParaletharchus pacificus (Osburn & Nichols, 1916) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| short-maned sand-eelPhaenomonas cooperae Palmer, 1970 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Phaenomonas longissima (Cadenat & Marchal, 1963) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| elastic eelPhaenomonas pinnata Myers & Wade, 1941 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| flappy snake-eelPhyllophichthus xenodontus Gosline, 1951 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| rice-paddy eelPisodonophis boro (Hamilton, 1822) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| longfin snake-eelPisodonophis cancrivorus (Richardson, 1848) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pisodonophis copelandi Herre, 1953 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| blunt-toothed snake eelPisodonophis daspilotus Gilbert, 1898 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pisodonophis hijala (Hamilton, 1822) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pisodonophis hoevenii (Bleeker, 1853) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pisodonophis semicinctus (Richardson, 1848) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pseudomyrophis atlanticus Blache, 1975 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pseudomyrophis frio (Jordan & Davis, 1891) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| diminutive worm eelPseudomyrophis fugesae McCosker, Böhlke & Böhlke, 1989 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| plain worm eelPseudomyrophis micropinna Wade, 1946 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pseudomyrophis nimius Böhlke, 1960 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pylorobranchus hearstorum McCosker, 2014 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pylorobranchus hoi McCosker, Loh, Lin & Chen, 2012 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| blackspotted snake eelQuassiremus ascensionis (Studer, 1889) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Quassiremus evionthas (Jordan & Bollman, 1890) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| redsaddled snake eelQuassiremus nothochir (Gilbert, 1890) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rhinophichthus penicillatus McCosker, 1999 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Schismorhynchus labialis (Seale, 1917) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Schultzidia johnstonensis (Schultz & Woods, 1949) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Schultzidia retropinnis (Fowler, 1934) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scolecenchelys acutirostris (Weber & de Beaufort, 1916) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scolecenchelys aoki (Jordan & Snyder, 1901) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scolecenchelys australis (MacLeay, 1881) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scolecenchelys brevicaudata Hibino & Kimura, 2015 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scolecenchelys breviceps (Günther, 1876) | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scolecenchelys castlei McCosker, 2006 | 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.