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The fire eel's base coloring is dark brown/grey, while the belly is generally a lighter shade of the same color. Several bright red lateral stripes and spots mark the body and vary in intensity depending on the age and condition of the individual. Usually, the markings are yellow/amber in juvenile fish, changing to a deep red in larger ones.
These fish have an eel-like body. The largest species can reach a maximum length of 1 m (3.3 ft). [3] Very characteristic of this group is the long nose appendage with two tubulated nostrils. [3] Mastacembelids have a series of well-separated dorsal spines on their back, hence the name of their family, spiny eels. [3]
Although its shape resembles an eel due to its slender and leg-less body, the monkeyface prickleback does not belong to the order Anguilliformes, which includes true eels, instead, it is classified under either the Perciformes, [1] along with nearly half of all bony fish, or the Scorpaeniformes, [2] according to different authorities.
Mandaya primordial eel – a gigantic eel that the earth sits upon. Earthquakes are triggered when the eel becomes agitated by crabs and small animals, [59] Nāga - a type of fresh water mermaids, but instead of having fish tails, they have the lower body of a water snake and the upper body of a human female. In Philippine folklore and ...
All species in this genus were formerly classified in Monopterus, but a 2020 study found them to represent a distinct monophyletic clade from Monopterus.Due to this, the genus name Ophichthys, previously coined by William Swainson, was revived to be used for them.
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Ilyophinae has a name based on that of its type genus Ilyophis, this name combines ilys which is Greek for "mud", probably an allusion to the soft, silty substrate habitat of I. brunneus, with ophis, meaning "serpent", referring to the snake-like shape of eels.