Bobtail snipe eel

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The bobtail snipe eels are two species of deep-sea fishes in the family Cyematidae. They are small elongate fishes, growing up to 16 cm long.

They are bathypelagic (deep-water ocean-dwellers) and have been found down to 5,000 m. They are found in all oceans.

J. S. Nelson classifies them with the true eels in the order Anguilliformes, but FishBase classifies them with the gulper eels in the order Saccopharyngiformes.

Cyema atrum is black; Neocyema erythrosoma is bright red.

References

[Cyema atrum (TSN 161632)]. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed on 18 April 2006.
["Cyematidae"]. FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. February 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
"[Cyema atrum]." FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. February 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
"[Neocyema erythrosoma]." FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. February 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.

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