''Ilyophis'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of marine

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...

es belonging to the

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Synaphobranchidae Cutthroat eels are a family, Synaphobranchidae, of eels, the only members of the suborder Synaphobranchoidei. They are found worldwide in temperate and tropical seas. Cutthroat eels range from in length. They are bottom-dwelling fish, found in ...

, the cutthroat eels. These eels are found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Species

There are currently six recognized species in this genus: * '' Ilyophis arx'' C. H. Robins, 1976World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS): Ilyophis Gilbert, 1891 AphiaID: 125654 http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125654 National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI): Ilyophis Taxonomy ID: 391181 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=391181&lvl=0 Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS): Ilyophis Gilbert, 1891 Taxonomic Serial No.: 161585 https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=161585 * '' Ilyophis blachei'' Saldanha & Merrett, 1982 * ''

Ilyophis brunneus The muddy arrowtooth eel, ''Ilyophis brunneus'', is a cutthroat eel in the family Synaphobranchidae Cutthroat eels are a family, Synaphobranchidae, of eels, the only members of the suborder Synaphobranchoidei. They are found worldwide in temp ...

'' Gilbert, 1891 * '' Ilyophis maclainei'' Tighe, D. G. Smith & Merrett, 2024 * '' Ilyophis nigeli'' Shcherbachev & Sulak, 1997 * '' Ilyophis robinsae'' Sulak & Shcherbachev, 1997 * '' Ilyophis saldanhai'' Karmovskaya & Parin, 1999 * '' Ilyophis singularis'' Tashiro & W.-J. Chen, 2022

References

* Ilyophinae Ray-finned fish genera Taxa named by Charles Henry Gilbert {{Anguilliformes-stub