Nettastoma
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Nettastoma 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:
  • Nettastoma falcinaris Parin & Karmovskaya, 1985
  • Nettastoma melanurum Rafinesque
    Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz
    Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz, as he is known in Europe, was a nineteenth-century polymath who made notable contributions to botany, zoology, the study of prehistoric earthworks in North America and Mesoamerican ancient linguistics.Rafinesque was eccentric, and is often portrayed as an...

    , 1810
    (Blackfin sorcerer)
  • Nettastoma parviceps Günther, 1877 (Duck-billed eel)
  • Nettastoma solitarium Castle & D. G. Smith, 1981 (Solitary duck-billed eel)
  • Nettastoma syntresis D. G. Smith & J. E. Böhlke, 1981
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