Saurenchelys - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Saurenchelys is a genus of eel

Eel

Eels are an order of fish, which consists of four suborders, 20 families, 111 genera and approximately 800 species. Most eels are predators...

s in the duckbill eel family Nettastomatidae. It currently contains the following species:

Saurenchelys cancrivora W. K. H. Peters
Wilhelm Peters
Wilhelm Karl Hartwich Peters was a German naturalist and explorer.He was assistant to Johannes Peter Müller and later curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. In September 1842 he travelled to Mozambique via Angola. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens...

, 1864 (Slender sorcerer)
Saurenchelys cognita D. G. Smith, 1989 (Longface eel)
Saurenchelys fierasfer (D. S. Jordan
David Starr Jordan
David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. was a leading eugenicist, ichthyologist, educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University.-Early life and education:...

& Snyder
John Otterbein Snyder
John Otterbein Snyder was an American zoologist.As a student he met David Starr Jordan who inspired him to enter zoology. He eventually became a zoology instructor at Stanford University and served there from 1899 until 1943. He went on several major collecting expeditions aboard the USS Albatross...

, 1901)
Saurenchelys finitimus (Whitley
Gilbert Percy Whitley
Gilbert Percy Whitley was a British-born Australian ichthyologist and malacologist who was Curator of Fishes at the Australian Museum in Sydney for about 40 years. He was born at Swaythling, Southampton, England, and was educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton and Osborne House...

, 1935) (Whitsunday wire eel)
Saurenchelys lateromaculatus (D'Ancona, 1928)
Saurenchelys meteori Klausewitz & Zajonz, 2000
Saurenchelys stylura (E. H. M. Lea, 1913) (Pillar wire eel)
Saurenchelys taiwanensis Karmovskaya, 2004

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