Yirrkala (fish)
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Yirrkala 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 snake eel family Ophichthidae. It currently contains the following species:
  • Yirrkala calyptra McCosker, 2011
  • Yirrkala chaselingi 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...

    , 1940
  • Yirrkala gjellerupi (Weber & de Beaufort, 1916)
  • Yirrkala insolitus McCosker, 1999
  • Yirrkala kaupii (Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....

    , 1858)
  • Yirrkala macrodon (Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....

    , 1863)
  • Yirrkala maculata (Klausewitz, 1964)
  • Yirrkala misolensis (Günther, 1872) (Misol snake-eel)
  • Yirrkala moluccensis (Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....

    , 1864)
  • Yirrkala moorei McCosker, 2006
  • Yirrkala ori McCosker, 2011
  • Yirrkala tenuis (Günther, 1870) (Thin sand-eel)
  • Yirrkala timorensis (Günther, 1870) (Earthworm snake-eel)
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