Dysomma

Dysomma is a genus of eels in the cutthroat eel family Synaphobranchidae.

Dysomma
Dysomma anguillare
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Anguilliformes
Family:	Synaphobranchidae
Subfamily:	Ilyophinae
Genus:	Dysomma Alcock, 1889

Species

There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus:

• Dysomma anguillare Barnard, 1923 (Short-belly arrowtooth eel)
• Dysomma brachygnathos H. C. Ho & Tighe, 2018 (Short-jaw cutthroat eel)
• Dysomma brevirostre (Facciolà, 1887) (Pig-nosed arrowtooth eel)
• Dysomma bucephalus Alcock, 1889
• Dysomma dolichosomatum Karrer, 1982
• Dysomma formosa H. C. Ho & Tighe, 2018 (White cutthroat eel)
• Dysomma fuscoventralis Karrer & Klausewitz, 1982
• Dysomma goslinei C. H. Robins & C. R. Robins, 1976
• Dysomma longirostrum Y. Y. Chen & H. K. Mok, 2001
• Dysomma melanurum J. S. T. F. Chen & H. T. C. Weng, 1967
• Dysomma muciparus (Alcock, 1891)
• Dysomma opisthoproctus Y. Y. Chen & H. K. Mok, 1995
• Dysomma polycatodon Karrer, 1982
• Dysomma robinsorum H. C. Ho & Tighe, 2018 (Robinses' cutthroat eel)
• Dysomma taiwanensis H. C. Ho, D. G. Smith & Tighe, 2015 (Taiwanese arrowtooth eel) [1]
• Dysomma tridens C. H. Robins, E. B. Böhlke & C. R. Robins, 1989

References

1. Ho, H.-C.; Smith, D.G. & Tighe, K.A. (2015). "Review of the arrowtooth eel genera Dysomma and Dysommina in Taiwan, with the description of a new species (Anguilliformes: Synaphobranchidae: Ilyophinae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 4060 (1): 86–104.