''Hoplunnis schmidti'' is an eel in the family

Nettastomatidae Nettastomatidae, the duckbill eels or witch eels are a family of eels. The name is from Greek ''netta'' meaning "duck" and ''stoma'' meaning "mouth". Duckbill eels are found along the continental slopes of tropical and temperate oceans worldwid ...

(duckbill/witch eels).''Hoplunnis schmidti''
at www.fishbase.org. It was described by

Johann Jakob Kaup Johann Jakob von Kaup (10 April 1803 – 4 July 1873) was a German naturalist. A proponent of natural philosophy, he believed in an innate mathematical order in nature and he attempted biological classifications based on the Quinarian system. Kaup ...

in 1860.Kaup, J. J., 1859 ef. 2586''Neue aalaehnliche Fische des Hamburger Museums, beschriebén und abgebildet.'' Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften herausgegeben von dem Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein in Hamburg v. 4 (no. 2): 1-29 + suppl. 1-4, Pls. 1-5. It is a

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, tropical eel which is known from Venezuela, in the western central Atlantic Ocean. Due to a lack of known major threats to ''H. schmidti'', the IUCN redlist currently lists it as Least Concern.''Hoplunnis schmidti''
at www.fishbase.org.

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Nettastomatidae Fish described in 1860 {{Anguilliformes-stub