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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]
Spiny eel. The name spiny eel is used to describe members of two different families of fish: the freshwater Mastacembelidae of Asia and Africa, and the marine (and generally deep sea) Notacanthidae. Both are so-named because of their eel -like shape and sturdy fin spines. These two families are not related: the Notacanthiformes belong to the ...
Mastacembelus is a genus of many species of spiny eel fish from the family Mastacembelidae.They are native to Africa (c. 45 species) and Asia (c. 15 species). [4] Most are found in rivers and associated systems (even in rapids [5]), but there are also species in other freshwater habitats and a particularly rich radiation is found in the Lake Tanganyika basin with 15 species (14 endemic).
The zig-zag eel (Mastacembelus armatus Scopoli, 1777[3]), also known as the Baim[4], tire-track, tire-track spiny- or marbled spiny eel, [2] is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Mastacembelidae. It is native to the riverine systems of the Indian Subcontinent (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal), Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand ...
Notacanthus bonaparte A. Risso, 1840 (Shortfin spiny eel) Notacanthus chemnitzii Bloch, 1788 (Snub-nosed spiny eel) Notacanthus indicus Lloyd, 1909 (Arabian spiny eel) Notacanthus laccadiviensis Konhamkakkada, Kinattumkara, Raghavan & Sivanpillai, 2023; Notacanthus sexspinis J. Richardson, 1846 (Spiny-back eel)
Tilurus von Kölliker 1853 [larva] Notacanthidae, the deep-sea spiny eels, are a family of fishes found worldwide below 125 m (410 ft), and as deep as 3,500 m (11,500 ft). The earliest known spiny eel is Pronotacanthus sahelalmae, from the Santonian of what is now Lebanon. Their bodies are greatly elongated, though more tapered than in true ...
Synbranchidae. Chaudhuriidae. Mastacembelidae. Indostomidae. Synbranchiformes, often called swamp eels, though that name can also refer specifically to Synbranchidae, is an order of ray-finned fishes that are eel -like but have spiny rays, indicating that they belong to the superorder Acanthopterygii.
The Notacanthiformes / nɒtəˈkænθɪfɔːrmiːz / are an order of deep-sea ray-finned fishes, consisting of the families Halosauridae and Notacanthidae ( spiny eels ). [1] The order is of relatively recent vintage; Fishes of the World (2006) lists it as the suborder Notacanthoidei of Albuliformes. [2] The notacanthiforms are much more eel ...