Ilyophis - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Ilyophis 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 cutthroat eel family Synaphobranchidae. It currently contains the following species:

Ilyophis arx C. H. Robins, 1976
Ilyophis blachei Saldanha & Merrett
Nigel Merrett
Nigel R. Merrett is a British zoologist and ichthyologist and former director of the fish section of the British Natural History Museum....

, 1982
Ilyophis brunneus C. H. Gilbert
Charles Henry Gilbert
Charles Henry Gilbert was a pioneer ichthyologist and fishery biologist of particular significance to natural history of the western United States. He collected and studied fishes from Central America north to Alaska and described many new species...

, 1891 (Muddy arrowtooth eel)
Ilyophis nigeli Shcherbachev & Sulak, 1997
Ilyophis robinsae Sulak & Shcherbachev, 1997
Ilyophis saldanhai Karmovskaya & Parin, 1999

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