It's a true eel (Order Anguilliformes), not a worm or snake-its "spaghetti" look comes from extreme body slenderness and a burrowing lifestyle.

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The order Anguilliformes comprises 15 families, 141 genera and 791 fish species. Eight families had at least one karyotyped species, with a prevalence of 2n = 38 chromosomes and high fundamental ...

Aquatic ecosystem; Borneo Island; diet; molecular; piscivory; tropical anguillid eels After examining the stomach contents of A. marmorata specimens collected in Brunei Darussalam, and Malaysia in the ...

Two new species of dark-body snake eels are described based on specimens collected from Taiwan. Ophichthus kbalanensis sp. nov. has a long tail; dorsal-fin origin above posterior third of pectoral fin ...

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Researchers have discovered a new species of snake eel Ophichthus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from two different estuaries (Subarnarekha and Bahuda) along the coast of Odisha and one specimen from ...

Berhampur: Researchers at Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have discovered a new species of snake eel Ophichthus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) off the Odisha coast. The study was conducted on ...

Researchers at the ICAR-National Bureau of Fish Genetics Resources (ICAR-NBFGR) have identified two new specimens of congrid eels off the coasts of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The discovery of the eels of ...

RAMANATHAPURAM: Researchers of the National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (NBFGR), functioning under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), have discovered two eel species, one each ...