Lamnostoma
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Lamnostoma | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Lamnostoma kampeni | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Ophichthidae |
| Subfamily: | Ophichthinae |
| Genus: | Lamnostoma Kaup, 1856 |
| Type species | |
| Lamnostoma pictum Kaup, 1856[1] | |
| Species | |
|
See text. | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
| |
Lamnostoma is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. It currently contains the following species:
- Lamnostoma kampeni (M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1916) (Freshwater snake-eel)
- Lamnostoma mindora (D. S. Jordan & R. E. Richardson, 1908)
- Lamnostoma orientalis (McClelland, 1844) (Oriental worm-eel)
- Lamnostoma polyophthalma (Bleeker, 1853) (Ocellated sand-eel)
- Lamnostoma taylori (Herre, 1923)
