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Slender shortfaced eel

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 13, 2022
Entity authorityQ2170564 ↗
Source-derived summary

The slender shortfaced eel (Panturichthys longus) is an eel in the family Heterenchelyidae (mud eels). It was described by Ernst Ehrenbaum in 1915, originally under the genus Heterenchelys. It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from Benin to Angola in the Gulf of Guinea, in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Males can reach a maximum total length of 149 centimetres.

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Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1915—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Slender, shortfaced and species is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Slender shortfaced eel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.