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Synaphobranchidae
Ilyophis saldanhai
Ilyophis saldanhai
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Anguilliform
- Medium
Southern Hemisphere
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Anguilliform
MediumIlyophis saldanhai is an eel in the family Synaphobranchidae (cutthroat eels). It was described by Emma Stanislavovna Karmovskaya and Nikolai Vasilyevich Parin in 1999, and is the most recently described of the six species in the genus Ilyophis. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from the western central Atlantic Ocean.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- True Eels
- Family
- Synaphobranchidae
- Genus
- Ilyophis
- Maximum length
- 41.2 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Western Central Atlantic: Mid-Atlantic Rise (Broken Spur). Southeast Pacific Rise. High Seas only.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
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Family
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