Biology:Ophisternon
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Ophisternon is a genus of swamp eels found in fresh and brackish waters in South and Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, Middle America and West Africa.[1] Two species are blind cave-dwellers.[2]
Well-preserved fossil remains of an Ophisternon sp. are known from the early Pleistocene-aged Laguna Formation of the Philippines, representing the oldest known fossil record of this genus.[3]
Species
There are currently seven recognized species in this genus:[1][4]
- Ophisternon aenigmaticum D. E. Rosen & Greenwood, 1976 (Obscure swamp eel)
- Ophisternon afrum (Boulenger, 1909) (Guinea swamp eel)
- Ophisternon bengalense McClelland, 1844 (Bengal eel)
- Ophisternon candidum (Mees, 1962) (Blind cave eel)
- Ophisternon gutturale (J. Richardson, 1845) (Australian swamp eel)
- Ophisternon infernale (C. L. Hubbs, 1938) (Blind swamp eel)
- Ophisternon berlini (J. Arroyave, 2024) (Berlin's bloodworm eel) [4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Ophisternon in FishBase. May 2017 version.
- ↑ Romero, A., editor (2001). The Biology of Hypogean Fishes. Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes. ISBN 978-1402000768
- ↑ Přikryl, Tomáš; Castro, Abigael; Fernando, Allan Gil; Nogot, Jaan Ruy Conrad; Magtoto, Clarence; Garas, Kevin; Mediodia, Dominique; Lin, Chien-Hsiang (2025-01-16). "Fossil fish assemblage of the Laguna Formation, Philippines: unveiling the uniqueness of Pleistocene freshwater ecosystems in Southeast Asia" (in en). Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144 (1): 5. doi:10.1186/s13358-024-00347-0. ISSN 1664-2384.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Arroyave, Jairo; Angulo, Arturo; Mar-Silva, Adán Fernando; Stiassny, Melanie L. J. (2024-10-02). "A New Endogean, Dwarf, and Troglomorphic Species of Swamp Eel of the Genus Ophisternon (Synbranchiformes: Synbranchidae) from Costa Rica: Evidence from Comparative Mitogenomic and Anatomical Data". Ichthyology & Herpetology 112 (3). doi:10.1643/i2024055. ISSN 2766-1512. https://bioone.org/journals/ichthyology-and-herpetology/volume-112/issue-3/i2024055/A-New-Endogean-Dwarf-and-Troglomorphic-Species-of-Swamp-Eel/10.1643/i2024055.full.
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