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Ophichthus naevius

Ophichthus naevius Kodeeswaran, Kathirvelpandian, Mohapatra, Kumar & Sarkar, 2023

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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References

  • Kodeeswaran, P., Kathirvelpandian, A., Mohapatra, A., Ajith Kumar, T. T. P., & Sarkar, U. K. (2023). A new snake eel species of the genus Ophichthus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from the southeast coast of India, Bay of Bengal, with the taxonomic account of Ophichthus chilkensis. Journal of Fish Biology, 104. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15617

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.