WoRMS taxon details
Ophichthus aphotistos McCosker & Chen, 2000
271939 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:271939)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
McCosker, J. E.; Chen, Y.-Y. (2000). A new species of deepwater snake-eel, <i>Ophichthus aphotistos</i>, with comments on <i>Neenchelys retropinna</i> (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from Taiwan. <em>Ichthyol. Res.</em> 47(4): 353-357. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Ophichthus aphotistos McCosker & Chen, 2000. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=271939 on 2025-05-16
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Nomenclature
original description
McCosker, J. E.; Chen, Y.-Y. (2000). A new species of deepwater snake-eel, <i>Ophichthus aphotistos</i>, with comments on <i>Neenchelys retropinna</i> (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from Taiwan. <em>Ichthyol. Res.</em> 47(4): 353-357. [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]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
