Spectrunculus
Genus of fishes
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Spectrunculus is a genus of cusk-eels found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
| Spectrunculus | |
|---|---|
| |
| Pudgy Cusk-eel (S. grandis) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Ophidiiformes |
| Family: | Ophidiidae |
| Subfamily: | Neobythitinae |
| Genus: | Spectrunculus D. S. Jordan & W. F. Thompson, 1914 |
| Type species | |
| Spectrunculus radcliffei Jordan & Thompson, 1914[1] | |
Species
There are currently two recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Spectrunculus crassus (Vaillant, 1888)
- Spectrunculus grandis (Günther, 1877) (Pudgy cusk-eel)
