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Snipe eels are a family, Nemichthyidae, of eels that consists of nine species in three genera. They are pelagic fishes, found in every ocean, mostly at depths of 300–600 m (980–1,970 ft) but sometimes as deep as 4,000 m (13,000 ft).
Cyema was first proposed as a genus in 1878 by the German-born British ichthyologist Albert Günther when he described its only species Cyema atrum. [2] The type locality of C. atrum was given as the South Pacific from Challenger station 295 from a depths of 1,500 fathoms (9,000 ft; 2,700 m) and the Antarctic Ocean from Challenger station 158 from a depth of 1,800 fathoms (10,800 ft; 3,300 m). [4]
The slender snipe eel (Nemichthys scolopaceus), also known as the deep sea duck, is a fish that can weigh only a few ounces, yet reach 5 feet or 1.5 m in length.Features include a bird-like beak with curving tips, covered with tiny hooked teeth, which they use to sweep through the water to catch shrimp and other crustaceans.
Nemichthys is a genus of eels in the snipe-eel family Nemichthyidae. It currently contains the following species: Nemichthys curvirostris (Strömman, 1896) (boxer snipe-eel) Nemichthys larseni J. G. Nielsen & D. G. Smith, 1978; Nemichthys scolopaceus J. Richardson, 1848 (slender snipe-eel)
The Bean's sawtooth eel (Serrivomer beanii, also known commonly as the longfin sawpalate, the saw-tooth snipe eel, the sawtooth eel, the shortnosed snipe eel, and the stout sawpalate [3]) is an eel in the family Serrivomeridae (sawtooth eels). [4] It was described by Theodore Gill and John Adam Ryder in 1883. [5]
Nemichthys curvirostris, the boxer snipe eel, is a snipe eel of the family Nemichthyidae. Like other snipe eels, they have incredibly narrow and elongated bodies, and small fins. Like other snipe eels, they have incredibly narrow and elongated bodies, and small fins.
Avocettina acuticeps, the southern snipe eel or southern fintail snipe eel, [2] is an eel in the family Nemichthyidae (snipe eels). [3] It was described by Charles Tate Regan in 1916, originally under the genus Leptocephalus . [ 4 ]
Neocyema erythrosoma is a species of pelagic fish, a deep-water bobtail snipe eel in the family Cyematidae. It is the only member of its genus, Neocyema. It was first described by Peter Castle in 1978 after two specimens were caught at great depths in the south Atlantic Ocean in 1971. Further specimens have since been caught in the North ...