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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderSynbranchiformes
  4. ›familySynbranchidae
  5. ›genusMonopterus
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IUCN CR · Critically endangered

Desilvai's Blind Eel

Monopterus desilvai Bailey & Gans, 1998

Also calledPotta aandha (sin)

First described in: Bailey, R. M. and C. Gans. (1998). Two new synbranchid fishes, Monopterus roseni from Peninsular India and M. desilvai from Sri Lanka. <em>Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan.</em> 726: 1-18.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5204098.