snipe eels
nemichthyidae latin

Snipe eels have the long, slender body typical of eels.

It is also thought that larger fish eat adult snipe eels though there is not much direct evidence for this.

Larval snipe eels occupy more shallow regions of 60-70 m before descending to metamorphose into adult form.

Nemichthyidae (snipe eels)

Snipe eels are a family, Nemichthyidae, of eels that consists of nine species in three genera.

Cyematidae (bobtail snipe eels)

Snipe eels are oviparous, and the juveniles, called Leptocephali (meaning small head), do not resemble the adults but have oval, leaf-shaped and transparent bodies.

The bobtail snipe eels are two species of deep-sea fishes in the family Cyematidae, one only in each of two genera.

Coelacanths are opportunistic feeders, hunting cuttlefish, squid, snipe eels, small sharks, and other fish found in their deep reef and volcanic slope habitats.

Sunbathing in the twenty-five-foot Sportsman, watching mullets and snipe eels forage and dart through the bottle green waters, he was beginning to let his mind drift to thoughts of meeting Carrie.

The only food items actually found in the stomachs of snipe eels have been shrimp-like crustaceans, though ichthyologists believe they should be capable of catching and eating small fish and cephalopods also.

In some classifications the family Cyematidae of bobtail snipe eels is included in the Anguilliformes, but in the FishBase system that family is included in the order Saccopharyngiformes.

Snipe eels are found in every ocean and generally occupy depths of 300-600 m, though specimens have been caught nearer the surface at night, and storms occasionally result in individuals being stranded on the shore.

Based on studies of several species of snipe eel in the Sargasso Sea and off the coast of California, it seems that snipe eels spawn mainly in the spring, but also into early summer.

Eels in the Nemichthyidae family swim about 500 m below the ocean surface.

Nemichthys is a genus of eels in the snipe-eel family Nemichthyidae.

Snipe eels are a family, Nemichthyidae, of eels that consists of nine species in three genera.

Les poissons apodes appartenant au sous-ordre des nemichthydiformes, 1929 - Treatise on Nemichthyidae.

The boxer snipe eel, Nemichthys curvirostris, is a snipe eel of the family Nemichthyidae.

The avocet snipe-eel (Avocettina infans) is a snipe eel of the family Nemichthyidae, found in all oceans except the Mediterranean and the eastern Pacific, at depths between 50 and 4,500 m. Their length is up to 75 cm.