WoRMS taxon details
Ophichthus serpentinus Seale, 1917
217582 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217582)
accepted
Species
Ophichthus bennettai McCosker, 1986 · unaccepted
Ophichthus karreri Blache, 1975 · unaccepted
Ophichthys serpentinus Seale, 1917 · unaccepted (misspelling)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Seale, A. (1917). New species of apodal fishes. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> 61 (4): 79-94. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Ophichthus serpentinus Seale, 1917. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217582 on 2025-05-27
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Nomenclature
original description
Seale, A. (1917). New species of apodal fishes. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> 61 (4): 79-94. [details]
original description (of Ophichthus karreri Blache, 1975) Blache, J. (1975). Contribution à la connaissance des poissons Anguilliformes de la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 15e note. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire (Serie A) Sciences Naturelles.</em> 37 (3): 708-740. [details]
original description (of Ophichthus bennettai McCosker, 1986) McCosker, J. E. (1986). A new snake eel, Ophichthus bennettai (Pisces: Ophichthidae) from off western South Africa. <em>The J.L.B Smith Institute of Ichthyology Special Publication.</em> 39: 1-4. [details]
original description (of Ophichthys serpentinus Seale, 1917) Seale, A. (1917). New species of apodal fishes. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> 61 (4): 79-94. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
original description (of Ophichthus karreri Blache, 1975) Blache, J. (1975). Contribution à la connaissance des poissons Anguilliformes de la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 15e note. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire (Serie A) Sciences Naturelles.</em> 37 (3): 708-740. [details]
original description (of Ophichthus bennettai McCosker, 1986) McCosker, J. E. (1986). A new snake eel, Ophichthus bennettai (Pisces: Ophichthidae) from off western South Africa. <em>The J.L.B Smith Institute of Ichthyology Special Publication.</em> 39: 1-4. [details]
original description (of Ophichthys serpentinus Seale, 1917) Seale, A. (1917). New species of apodal fishes. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> 61 (4): 79-94. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Ophichthus karreri Blache, 1975)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Ophichthus bennettai McCosker, 1986)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Ophichthys serpentinus Seale, 1917)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ophichthus serpentinus)
To FishBase (from synonym Ophichthus bennettai McCosker, 1986)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Ophichthus karreri Blache, 1975)
To FishBase (from synonym Ophichthys serpentinus Seale, 1917)
To FishBase images (Ophichthus bennettai, South Africa, by SFSA) (from synonym Ophichthus bennettai McCosker, 1986)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Ophichthus karreri Blache, 1975)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Ophichthus bennettai McCosker, 1986)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Ophichthys serpentinus Seale, 1917)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ophichthus serpentinus)
To FishBase (from synonym Ophichthus bennettai McCosker, 1986)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Ophichthus karreri Blache, 1975)
To FishBase (from synonym Ophichthys serpentinus Seale, 1917)
To FishBase images (Ophichthus bennettai, South Africa, by SFSA) (from synonym Ophichthus bennettai McCosker, 1986)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Hosted externally, from synonym
