Species details : Ophisternon bengalense McClelland, 1844

Accepted scientific name:
Ophisternon bengalense McClelland, 1844 (accepted name) 1 literature reference for Ophisternon bengalense  McClelland, 1844
Synonyms:
Ophisternon bengalensis McClelland, 1844 (synonym) 1 literature reference for Ophisternon bengalensis McClelland, 1844
Ophisternon hepaticus McClelland, 1844 (ambiguous synonym) 1 literature reference for Ophisternon hepaticus McClelland, 1844
Symbranchus bengalensis (McClelland, 1844) (synonym) 1 literature reference for Symbranchus bengalensis (McClelland, 1844)
Synbranchus bengalensis (McClelland, 1844) (synonym) 1 literature reference for Synbranchus bengalensis (McClelland, 1844)
Tetrabranchus microphthalmus Bleeker, 1851 (synonym) 1 literature reference for Tetrabranchus microphthalmus Bleeker, 1851
Tetrabranchus micropthalma Bleeker, 1851 (synonym) 1 literature reference for Tetrabranchus micropthalma Bleeker, 1851
Common names:
Common name Transliteration Language Country
Nipa-nipa - Banton Philippines(Romblon Province) Click here to show the literature
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Bamosh - Bengali Bangladesh Click here to show the literature
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বামুশ - Bengali Bangladesh
Kasili - Bikol Philippines Click here to show the literature
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Ogdok - Bikol Philippines Click here to show the literature
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Ugdok - Bikol Philippines(Atulayan Bay) Click here to show the literature
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Enkeltgællet gælleål - Danish Denmark Click here to show the literature
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Bengal mudeel - English - Click here to show the literature
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Bengal mudeel - English India Click here to show the literature
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One-gilled eel - English Papua New Guinea Click here to show the literature
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Onegilled eel - English Australia Click here to show the literature
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Pygmy eel - English India Click here to show the literature
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Swamp eel - English Sri Lanka Click here to show the literature
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Welut - Javanese Indonesia(Java) Click here to show the literature
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Igat - Kapampangan Philippines Click here to show the literature
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Antong - Khmer Cambodia Click here to show the literature
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Katsili - Kuyunon Philippines Click here to show the literature
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Belut - Malay (individual language) Indonesia Click here to show the literature
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孟加拉合鰓魚 Meng jia la he sai yu Mandarin Chinese China Click here to show the literature
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孟加拉国合鳃鱼 Meng jia la he sai yu Mandarin Chinese China Click here to show the literature
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孟加拉国蛇胸鳝 Meng jia la she xiong shan Mandarin Chinese China Click here to show the literature
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孟加拉蛇胸鱔 Meng jia la she syong shan Mandarin Chinese China Click here to show the literature
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Buknol - Pangasinan Philippines Click here to show the literature
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Potta aandha - Sinhalese Sri Lanka Click here to show the literature
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Palos - Tagalog Philippines Click here to show the literature
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Lich - Vietnamese Viet Nam Click here to show the literature
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Classification:
Kingdom Animalia CoL
Phylum Chordata CoL
Class Actinopterygii FishBase
Order Synbranchiformes FishBase
Family Synbranchidae FishBase
Genus Ophisternon FishBase
Distribution: Asia and Oceania: India and Sri Lanka to south-eastern Asia, Indonesia, Philippines and New Guinea. Recorded from Australia (Ref. 7300) and Palau (Ref. 6371).
Lifezones: Brackish,freshwater
Additional data: -
Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 02-Oct-2012
Source database: FishBase, Jan 2015   99%
Bibliographic citation: Froese R. & Pauly D. (eds) (2025). FishBase (version Jan 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2015 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Kunze T., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.
Online resource: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?ID=22496
CoL taxon LSID: urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:f6743eed-ac8e-11e3-805d-020044200006:col20150401