Echiophis

Echiophis is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. It currently contains the following species:

• Echiophis brunneus (Castro-Aguirre & Suárez de los Cobos, 1983) (Pacific spoon-nose eel)
• Echiophis intertinctus (J. Richardson, 1848) (Spotted spoon-nose eel)
• Echiophis punctifer (Kaup, 1860) (Stippled spoon-nose eel)

Echiophis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Anguilliformes
Family:	Ophichthidae
Subfamily:	Ophichthinae
Genus:	Echiophis Kaup, 1856
Type species
Ophisurus intertinctus Richardson, 1848
Species
See text.
Synonyms
Crotalopsis Kaup, 1859 Macrodonophis Poey, 1868 Notophtophis Castro-Aguirre & Suárez de los Cobos, 1983