The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·618607SpeciesActinopterygii1 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Chordates
  3. ›Vertebrates
  4. ›Ray-finned Fishes
  5. ›Tarpons, Eels, and Allies
  6. ›True Eels
  7. ›Congroidei
  8. ›Snake Eels
  9. ›Worm Eels
  10. ›Scolecenchelys
Scolecenchelys iredalei
Plate 1 of 1. (c) Norbert VERNEAU, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by Norbert VERNEAU · via iNaturalist

Scolecenchelys iredalei

Scolecenchelys iredalei is a species of eel in the worm/snake eel family Ophichthidae. It was first described in the genus Muraenichthys by Gilbert Percy Whitley in 1927 and named in honour of ornithologist-malacologist Tom Iredale from the Australian Museum.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Scolecenchelys iredalei in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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 618607.