| Shorttailed shortfaced eel | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Heterenchelyidae |
| Genus: | Pythonichthys |
| Species: | P. microphthalmus
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| Binomial name | |
| Pythonichthys microphthalmus (Regan, 1912)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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The shorttailed shortfaced eel[2] (Pythonichthys microphthalmus) is an eel in the family Heterenchelyidae (mud eels).[3] It was described by Charles Tate Regan in 1912, originally under the genus Heterenchelys.[4] It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from Mauritania to Angola, in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. It typically dwells at a depth range of 40–150 metres. Males can reach a maximum total length of 50.5 centimetres.[3]
- ^ Synonyms of Pythonichthys micropthalmus at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ Common names for Pythonichthys microphthalmus at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ a b Pythonichthys microphthalmus at www.fishbase.org.
- ^ Regan, C. T., 1912 (1 Sept.) [ref. 3647] Description of two new eels from West Africa, belonging to a new genus and family. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 8) v. 10 (no. 57): 323-324.