Deepwater Indo-Pacific species of the snake-eel genus Ophichthus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), with the description of nine new species

• Main Author: E, John
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Anguilliformes; Ophichthidae; Ida; Nakaya; Pacific; Snyder; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.195896; https://zenodo.org/record/195896

E, John (2010): Deepwater Indo-Pacific species of the snake-eel genus Ophichthus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), with the description of nine new species. Zootaxa 2505: 1-39, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.195896 : {"references": ["Allis, E.P. Jr. (1903) The lateral sensory system in the Muraenidae. Internationale Monatsschrift fur Anatomie und Physiologie 20, 125-170.", "Asano, H. (1987) A new ophichthid eel, Ophichthus megalops, from the Kumano-nada, Japan. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 34,135-137.", "Anonymous (Bennett), E.T. (1830) Class Pisces. Pp. 686-694. In Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles ... By his Widow Lady Stamford Raffles, 701 pp.", "Blache, J. (1975) Contribution a la connaissance des Poissons Anguilliformes de la cote occidentale d'Afrique. 15e note: complements aux familles des Muraenidae, des Heterenchelyidae et des Ophichthidae. Bulletin de l'IFAN, ser. A 37, 708-740.", "Boesman, B. 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