Ophichthus cruentifer
creator: Cuvelier, Daphne
creator: Bailly, Nicolas
date: 2026-08-25
language: en
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
publisher: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
relation: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php
subject: Ophichthus cruentifer (Goode & Bean, 1896)
type: ScientificName
bibliographic citation: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Ophichthus cruentifer (Goode & Bean, 1896). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158644 on 2026-08-25
created: 2005-05-26T09:43:32Z
modified: 2008-01-15T18:27:08Z
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rights holder: WoRMS Editorial Board
scientific name: Ophichthus cruentifer (Goode & Bean, 1896)
class: Teleostei
family: Ophichthidae
genus: Ophichthus
kingdom: Animalia
name published in: Eigenmann, C. H.; Kennedy, C. H. (1902). The leptocephalus of the American eel and other American Leptocephali. Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission. v. 21 (1901): 81-92.
name published in: Fowler, H. W. (1948). A new snake eel Omochelys marginatus from off New Jersey. Notulae Naturae (Philadelphia). 210: 1-3.
name published in: Goode, G.B.; Bean, T.H. (1896). Oceanic Ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures. Spec. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. Text: 2: i-xxxv + 1-26 + 1-553. Atlas: i-xxiii, 1-26. Pls. 123.
name published in year: 1902
name published in year: 1948
name published in year: 1896
order: Anguilliformes
parent name usage ID: 125647
phylum: Chordata
scientific name authorship: (Goode & Bean, 1896)
specific epithet: cruentifer
taxon rank: Species
taxonomic status: accepted