Saurenchelys is a genus of eels in the duckbill eel family Nettastomatidae.
| Saurenchelys | |
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| Saurenchelys petersi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Nettastomatidae |
| Genus: | Saurenchelys W. K. H. Peters, 1864 |
| Type species | |
| Saurenchelys cancrivora W. K. H. Peters, 1864
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Species
editThere are currently 11 recognized species in this genus:
- Saurenchelys cancrivora W. K. H. Peters, 1864 (slender sorcerer)
- Saurenchelys cognita D. G. Smith, 1989 (long-face wire eel)
- Saurenchelys elongata (Kotthaus, 1968)[1]
- Saurenchelys fierasfer (D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1901) (black-tail duckbill eel)
- Saurenchelys finitima (Whitley, 1935) (Whitsunday wire eel)
- Saurenchelys gigas J. Lin, D. G. Smith & K. T. Shao, 2015 (giant duckbill eel) [1]
- Saurenchelys lateromaculata (D'Ancona, 1928)
- Saurenchelys meteori Klausewitz & Zajonz, 2000
- Saurenchelys petersi F. Day, 1878[1]
- Saurenchelys stylura (E. H. M. Lea, 1913) (pillar wire eel)
- Saurenchelys taiwanensis Karmovskaya, 2004
References
edit- ^ a b c Lin, J.; Smith, D.G.; Shao, K.-T.; Chen, H.-M. (2015). "Saurenchelys gigas sp. nov., a new nettastomatid eel (Teleostei, Anguilliformes, Nettastomatidae) from the western central Pacific" (PDF). Zootaxa. 4060 (1): 121–130. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4060.1.14. PMID 26701596.
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