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Chingilt

Yirrkala chaselingi

Yirrkala chaselingi, known commonly as the chingilt in Australia, is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Gilbert Percy Whitley in 1940. It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the western central Pacific Ocean.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 618625.