Apterichtus

Apterichtus is a genus of fish in the family Ophichthidae.

Apterichtus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Anguilliformes
Family:	Ophichthidae
Subfamily:	Ophichthinae
Genus:	Apterichtus A. M. C. Duméril, 1806
Type species
Caecilia branderiana Lacépède, 1800
Synonyms
Branderius Rafinesque, 1815 Ophisurapus Kaup, 1856 Typhlotes Fischer, 1813 Verma Jordan & Evermann, 1896

Species

There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus:

• Apterichtus anguiformis (W. K. H. Peters, 1877) (Slender finless eel)
• Apterichtus ansp (J. E. Böhlke, 1968) (Academy finless eel)
• Apterichtus australis McCosker & J. E. Randall, 2005
• Apterichtus caecus (Linnaeus, 1758) (European finless eel)
• Apterichtus dunalailai McCosker & Hibino, 2015 [1]
• Apterichtus equatorialis (G. S. Myers & Wade, 1941) (Equatorial finless eel)
• Apterichtus flavicaudus (Snyder, 1904)
• Apterichtus gracilis (Kaup, 1856)
• Apterichtus hatookai Hibino, Shibata & Kimura, 2014 (Orange-blotched finless eel) [2]
• Apterichtus jeffwilliamsi McCosker & Hibino, 2015 [1]
• Apterichtus kendalli (C. H. Gilbert, 1891) (Western Atlantic finless eel)
• Apterichtus klazingai (M. C. W. Weber, 1913) (Sharp-snout finless eel)
• Apterichtus malabar McCosker & Hibino, 2015 [1]
• Apterichtus monodi (C. Roux, 1966)
• Apterichtus moseri (D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1901)
• Apterichtus mysi McCosker & Hibino, 2015 [1]
• Apterichtus nariculus McCosker & Hibino, 2015 [1]
• Apterichtus orientalis Machida & Ohta, 1994
• Apterichtus succinus Hibino, McCosker & Kimura, 2016 [3]

References

1. McCosker, J.E. & Hibino, Y. (2015): A review of the finless snake eels of the genus Apterichtus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), with the description of five new species. Zootaxa, 3941 (1): 49–78.
2. Hibino, Y., Shibata, J.-y. & Kimura, S. (2014): Description of a new snake eel, Apterichtus hatookai sp. nov. (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), from the Pacific coast of Japan. Ichthyological Research, 61 (4): 317-321.
3. Hibino, Y., McCosker, J.E. & Kimura, S. (2016): A new species of Apterichtus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from the Marquesas Islands. Zootaxa, 4117 (1): 146–150.