The slender shortfaced eel[2] (Panturichthys longus) is an eel in the family Heterenchelyidae (mud eels).[3] It was described by Ernst Ehrenbaum in 1915, originally under the genus Heterenchelys.[4] It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from Benin to Angola in the Gulf of Guinea, in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Males can reach a maximum total length of 149 centimetres.[3]
| Slender shortfaced eel | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Heterenchelyidae |
| Genus: | Panturichthys |
| Species: | P. longus
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| Binomial name | |
| Panturichthys longus (Ehrenbaum, 1915)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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References
edit- ^ Panturichthys longus at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ Common names for Panturichthys longus at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ a b Panturichthys longus Archived 2013-04-12 at archive.today at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ Ehrenbaum, E., 1915 [ref. 15784] Über Küstenfische von Westafrika, besonders von Kamerun. 1-85.
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