FB-70999 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=70999 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Beloniformes Belonidae Ablennes Ablennes joseberchmansis Thomas & Abdussamad, 2024 Surya’s snake eel 2025-03-24 2025-03-24 Behera, R.K., S. Acharya, S.S. Mishra and A. Mohapatra0 Morphological and molecular evidences confirm a new species in <i>Ophichthus</i> (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from the east coast of India. Bull. Mar. Sci. 100(3):419-428. (Ref. 133138) FB-DiagnosticDescr-71008 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Trisha Marie Santos 2025-03-27 00:00:00 2025-03-27 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=71008 This species is distinguished by the following set of characters: origin of the dorsal fin (DFO) just above or slightly anterior to the gill opening; pectoral fin is small, rounded, and white in color, with no dark blotch on the anterior lobe of the dorsal fin; teeth are small and numerous, uniserial at the beginning of maxillary with triserial ending, mandibular teeth biserial anteriorly and triserial posteriorly; presence of single lip barbel; mean vertebral formula (MVF) is 7.5/46/144.6 (Ref. 133138). Behera, R.K., S. Acharya, S.S. Mishra and A. Mohapatra 2024 Morphological and molecular evidences confirm a new species in <i>Ophichthus</i> (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from the east coast of India. Bull. Mar. Sci. 100(3):419-428. (Ref. 133138) FB-Morphology-71008 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Trisha Marie Santos 2025-03-27 00:00:00 2025-03-27 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=71008 Vertebrae: 142 - 148 Behera, R.K., S. Acharya, S.S. Mishra and A. Mohapatra 2024 Morphological and molecular evidences confirm a new species in <i>Ophichthus</i> (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from the east coast of India. Bull. Mar. Sci. 100(3):419-428. (Ref. 133138) FB-Distribution-71008 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Trisha Marie Santos 2025-03-27 00:00:00 2025-03-27 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=71008 Eastern Indian Ocean: India. Behera, R.K., S. Acharya, S.S. Mishra and A. Mohapatra 2024 Morphological and molecular evidences confirm a new species in <i>Ophichthus</i> (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from the east coast of India. Bull. Mar. Sci. 100(3):419-428. (Ref. 133138) FB-Uses-71008 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Trisha Marie Santos 2025-03-27 00:00:00 2025-03-27 00:00:00 Importance http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=71008 fisheries: of no interest FB-Size-71008 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Trisha Marie Santos 2025-03-27 00:00:00 2025-03-27 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=71008 2.9 cm TL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 133138)) Behera, R.K., S. Acharya, S.S. Mishra and A. Mohapatra 2024 Morphological and molecular evidences confirm a new species in <i>Ophichthus</i> (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from the east coast of India. Bull. Mar. Sci. 100(3):419-428. (Ref. 133138) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-71008 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Trisha Marie Santos 2025-03-27 00:00:00 2025-03-27 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=71008 benthopelagic; marine