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Benthenchelys

Benthenchelys is a genus of deep sea eels in the snake-eel family Ophichthidae, with these species:

Benthenchelys cartieri Fowler, 1934

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species

Benthenchelys pacificus

speciesBenthenchelys pacificus

Benthenchelys indicus

speciesBenthenchelys indicus

Benthenchelys cartieri

speciesBenthenchelys cartieri

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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 86947.