n = 130
| Scientific Name | Author | Valid Name | Family | English Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ophichthus alleni | McCosker, 2010 | Ophichthus alleni | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus altipennis | (Kaup, 1856) | Ophichthus altipennis | Ophichthidae | Highfin snake eel |
| Ophichthus altipinnis | (Kaup, 1856) | Ophichthus altipennis | Ophichthidae | Highfin snake eel |
| Ophichthus aniptocheilos | McCosker, 2010 | Ophichthus aniptocheilos | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus apachus | McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1998 | Ophichthus apachus | Ophichthidae | Thin snake eel |
| Ophichthus aphotistos | McCosker & Chen, 2000 | Ophichthus aphotistos | Ophichthidae | Dark deepwater snake-eel |
| Ophichthus apicalis | (Anonymous [Bennett], 1830) | Ophichthus apicalis | Ophichthidae | Bluntnose snake-eel |
| Ophichthus arneutes | McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1998 | Ophichthus arneutes | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus asakusae | Jordan & Snyder, 1901 | Ophichthus asakusae | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus ater | (Peters, 1866) | Ophichthus remiger | Ophichthidae | Punctuated snake-eel |
| Ophichthus bangko | (Bleeker, 1852) | Ophichthus apicalis | Ophichthidae | Bluntnose snake-eel |
| Ophichthus bennettai | McCosker, 1986 | Ophichthus serpentinus | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus bicolor | McCosker & Ho, 2015 | Ophichthus bicolor | Ophichthidae | Bicolored snake eel |
| Ophichthus bonaparti | (Kaup, 1856) | Ophichthus bonaparti | Ophichthidae | Napoleon snake eel |
| Ophichthus brachynotopterus | Karrer, 1983 | Ophichthus brachynotopterus | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus brasiliensis | (Kaup, 1856) | Ophichthus brasiliensis | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus brevicaudatus | Chu, Wu & Jin, 1981 | Ophichthus brevicaudatus | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus brevidorsalis | Chiu & Hibino, 2019 | Ophichthus brevidorsalis | Ophichthidae | Short dorsal-fin snake eel |
| Ophichthus brevirostris | McCosker & Ross, 2007 | Ophichthus brevirostris | Ophichthidae | Snubnose snake eel |
| Ophichthus callaensis | Günther, 1873 | Ophichthus remiger | Ophichthidae | Punctuated snake-eel |
| Ophichthus celebicus | (Bleeker, 1856) | Ophichthus celebicus | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus cephalozona | Bleeker, 1864 | Ophichthus cephalozona | Ophichthidae | Dark-shouldered snake eel |
| Ophichthus chamensis | Meek & Hildebrand, 1923 | Ophichthus zophochir | Ophichthidae | Yellow snake eel |
| Ophichthus chennaiensis | Das, Mohapatra, Rajendar & Bhaskar, 2020 | Genus Species | New species | |
| Ophichthus congroides | McCosker, 2010 | Ophichthus congroides | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus cruentifer | (Goode & Bean, 1896) | Ophichthus cruentifer | Ophichthidae | Margined snake eel |
| Ophichthus cyclorhinus | Fraser-Brunner, 1934 | Leiuranus versicolor | Ophichthidae | Convict snake eel |
| Ophichthus cylindroides | (Ranzani, 1839) | Ophichthus cylindroideus | Ophichthidae | Dusky snake eel |
| Ophichthus cylindroideus | (Ranzani, 1839) | Ophichthus cylindroideus | Ophichthidae | Dusky snake eel |
| Ophichthus derbyensis | Whitley, 1941 | Ophichthus rutidoderma | Ophichthidae | Olive snake eel |
| Ophichthus dicellurus | (Richardson, 1845) | Ophichthus remiger | Ophichthidae | Punctuated snake-eel |
| Ophichthus echeloides | (D'Ancona, 1928) | Ophichthus echeloides | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus episcopus | Castelnau, 1878 | Ophichthus bonaparti | Ophichthidae | Napoleon snake eel |
| Ophichthus erabo | (Jordan & Snyder, 1901) | Ophichthus erabo | Ophichthidae | Blotched snake-eel |
| Ophichthus evermanni | Jordan & Richardson, 1909 | Ophichthus lithinus | Ophichthidae | Evermann's snake eel |
| Ophichthus evionthas | Jordan & Bollman, 1890 | Quassiremus evionthas | Ophichthidae | Galapagos snake eel |
| Ophichthus exourus | McCosker, 1999 | Ophichthus exourus | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus fasciatus | (Chu, Wu & Jin, 1981) | Ophichthus fasciatus | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus fowleri | (Jordan & Evermann, 1903) | Ophichthus fowleri | Ophichthidae | Fowler's snake eel |
| Ophichthus frontalis | Garman, 1899 | Ophichthus frontalis | Ophichthidae | Deathbanded snakeeel |
| Ophichthus garretti | Günther, 1910 | Ophichthus bonaparti | Ophichthidae | Napoleon snake eel |
| Ophichthus genie | McCosker, 1999 | Ophichthus genie | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus gomesi | (Castelnau, 1855) | Ophichthus gomesii | Ophichthidae | Shrimp eel |
| Ophichthus gomesii | (Castelnau, 1855) | Ophichthus gomesii | Ophichthidae | Shrimp eel |
| Ophichthus grandoculis | (Cantor, 1849) | Ophichthus grandoculis | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus hijala | (Hamilton, 1822) | Pisodonophis hijala | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus hirritus | McCosker, 2010 | Ophichthus hirritus | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus humanni | McCosker, 2010 | Ophichthus humanni | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus hyposagmatus | McCosker & Böhlke, 1984 | Ophichthus hyposagmatus | Ophichthidae | Faintsaddled snake eel |
| Ophichthus ishiyamorum | McCosker, 2010 | Ophichthus ishiyamorum | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus johnmccoskeri | Mohapatra, Ray, Mohanty & Mishra, 2018 | Genus Species | New species | |
| Ophichthus kailashchandrai | Mohapatra, Ray, Mohanty & Mishra, 2020 | Ophichthus kailashchandrai | Ophichthidae | Kailash Chandra’s snake eel |
| Ophichthus karreri | Blache, 1975 | Ophichthus serpentinus | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus kunaloa | McCosker, 1979 | Ophichthus kunaloa | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus kusanagi | Hibino, McCosker & Tashiro, 2019 | Genus Species | New species | |
| Ophichthus lentiginosus | McCosker, 2010 | Ophichthus lentiginosus | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus leonensis | Blache, 1975 | Ophichthus leonensis | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus limkouensis | Chen, 1929 | Ophichthus limkouensis | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus lithinus | (Jordan & Richardson, 1908) | Ophichthus lithinus | Ophichthidae | Evermann's snake eel |
| Ophichthus longicorpus | Vo & Ho, 2021 | Genus Species | New species | |
| Ophichthus longipenis | McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1998 | Ophichthus longipenis | Ophichthidae | Slender snake eel |
| Ophichthus lupus | Hibino, McCosker & Tashiro, 2019 | Genus Species | New species | |
| Ophichthus machidai | McCosker, Ide & Endo, 2012 | Ophichthus machidai | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus macrochir | (Bleeker, 1853) | Ophichthus macrochir | Ophichthidae | Bigfin snake eel |
| Ophichthus macrops | Günther, 1910 | Ophichthus macrops | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus maculatus | (Rafinesque, 1810) | Ophichthus maculatus | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus madagascariensis | Fourmanoir, 1961 | Pisodonophis cancrivorus | Ophichthidae | Longfin snake-eel |
| Ophichthus manilensis | Herre, 1923 | Ophichthus manilensis | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus marginatus | (Peters, 1855) | Ophichthus marginatus | Ophichthidae | Shorthead snake-eel |
| Ophichthus mccoskeri | Sumod, Hibino, Manjabrayakath & Sanjeevan, 2019 | Genus Species | New species | |
| Ophichthus mecopterus | McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1998 | Ophichthus mecopterus | Ophichthidae | Longarmed snake eel |
| Ophichthus megalops | Asano, 1987 | Ophichthus megalops | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus melanochir | (Bleeker, 1864) | Ophichthus altipennis | Ophichthidae | Highfin snake eel |
| Ophichthus melanoporus | Kanazawa, 1963 | Ophichthus melanoporus | Ophichthidae | Blackpored eel |
| Ophichthus melope | McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1998 | Ophichthus melope | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus menezesi | McCosker & Böhlke, 1984 | Ophichthus menezesi | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus microcephalus | Day, 1878 | Ophichthus microcephalus | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus microstictus | McCosker, 2010 | Ophichthus microstictus | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus miyamotonis | Tanaka, 1913 | Myrichthys maculosus | Ophichthidae | Tiger snake eel |
| Ophichthus multiserialis | Norman, 1939 | Xyrias multiserialis | Ophichthidae | Speckled snake eel |
| Ophichthus mystacinus | McCosker, 1999 | Ophichthus mystacinus | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus naga | McCosker & Psomadakis, 2018 | Genus Species | New species | |
| Ophichthus nansen | McCosker & Psomadakis, 2018 | Genus Species | New species | |
| Ophichthus obtusus | McCosker, Ide & Endo, 2012 | Ophichthus obtusus | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus oligosteus | Hibino, McCosker & Tashiro, 2019 | Genus Species | New species | |
| Ophichthus olivaceus | McCosker & Bogorodsky, 2020 | Ophichthus olivaceus | Ophichthidae | Olivaceous snake eel |
| Ophichthus omorgmus | McCosker & Böhlke, 1984 | Ophichthus omorgmus | Ophichthidae | Dottedline snake eel |
| Ophichthus ophis | (Linnaeus, 1758) | Ophichthus ophis | Ophichthidae | Spotted snake eel |
| Ophichthus ornatissimus | (Kaup, 1856) | Herpetoichthys regius | Ophichthidae | Ornate Snake Eel |
| Ophichthus pacifici | Günther, 1870 | Ophichthus remiger | Ophichthidae | Punctuated snake-eel |
| Ophichthus pallens | (Richardson, 1848) | Genus Species | New species | |
| Ophichthus parilis | (Richardson, 1848) | Ophichthus cylindroideus | Ophichthidae | Dusky snake eel |
| Ophichthus parilus | (Richardson, 1848) | Ophichthus cylindroideus | Ophichthidae | Dusky snake eel |
| Ophichthus polyophthalmus | Bleeker, 1864 | Ophichthus polyophthalmus | Ophichthidae | Many-eyed snake-eel |
| Ophichthus pullus | McCosker, 2005 | Ophichthus pullus | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus puncticeps | (Kaup, 1859) | Ophichthus puncticeps | Ophichthidae | Palespotted eel |
| Ophichthus ramiger | (Valenciennes, 1847) | Ophichthus remiger | Ophichthidae | Punctuated snake-eel |
| Ophichthus regius | (Richardson, 1848) | Herpetoichthys regius | Ophichthidae | Ornate Snake Eel |
| Ophichthus remicaudus | (Kaup, 1856) | Ophichthus rufus | Ophichthidae | Rufus snake-eel |
| Ophichthus remiger | (Valenciennes, 1837) | Ophichthus remiger | Ophichthidae | Punctuated snake-eel |
| Ophichthus retifer | Fowler, 1935 | Ophichthus erabo | Ophichthidae | Blotched snake-eel |
| Ophichthus retrodorsalis | Liu, Tang & Zhang, 2010 | Ophichthus retrodorsalis | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus rex | Böhlke & Caruso, 1980 | Ophichthus rex | Ophichthidae | King snake eel |
| Ophichthus roseus | Tanaka, 1917 | Ophichthus roseus | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus rotundus | Lee & Asano, 1997 | Ophichthus rotundus | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus rufus | (Rafinesque, 1810) | Ophichthus rufus | Ophichthidae | Rufus snake-eel |
| Ophichthus rugifer | Jordan & Bollman, 1890 | Ophichthus rugifer | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus rutidoderma | (Bleeker, 1852) | Ophichthus rutidoderma | Ophichthidae | Olive snake eel |
| Ophichthus rutidodermatoides | (Bleeker, 1852) | Ophichthus rutidoderma | Ophichthidae | Olive snake eel |
| Ophichthus semilunatus | Hibino & Chiu, 2019 | Ophichthus semilunatus | Ophichthidae | Half-moon blotch snake eel |
| Ophichthus serpentinus | Seale, 1917 | Ophichthus serpentinus | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus shaoi | McCosker & Ho, 2015 | Ophichthus shaoi | Ophichthidae | Long bodied snake eel |
| Ophichthus singapurensis | Bleeker, 1864-65 | Ophichthus singapurensis | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus sp. | Not applicable | Quassiremus polyclitellum | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus spinicauda | (Norman, 1922) | Ophichthus spinicauda | Ophichthidae | Antillean snake eel |
| Ophichthus stenopterus | Cope, 1871 | Ophichthus stenopterus | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus stypurus | Smith & Swain, 1882 | Myrichthys magnificus | Ophichthidae | Magnificent snake eel |
| Ophichthus tchangi | Tang & Zhang, 2002 | Ophichthus tchangi | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus tetratrema | McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1998 | Ophichthus tetratrema | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus timorensis | Günther, 1870 | Yirrkala lumbricoides | Ophichthidae | Earthworm snake-eel |
| Ophichthus tomioi | McCosker, 2010 | Ophichthus tomioi | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus triserialis | (Kaup, 1856) | Ophichthus triserialis | Ophichthidae | Pacific snake eel |
| Ophichthus tsuchidae | Jordan & Snyder, 1901 | Ophichthus tsuchidae | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus unicolor | Regan, 1908 | Ophichthus unicolor | Ophichthidae | Plain snake-eel |
| Ophichthus urolophus | (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) | Ophichthus urolophus | Ophichthidae | Manetail snake eel |
| Ophichthus vietnamensis | Vo, Hibino & Ho, 2019 | Genus Species | New species | |
| Ophichthus woosuitingi | Chen, 1929 | Ophichthus woosuitingi | Ophichthidae | |
| Ophichthus yamakawai | Hibino, McCosker & Tashiro, 2019 | Genus Species | New species | |
| Ophichthus zonatus | Howell Rivero, 1932 | Ophichthus spinicauda | Ophichthidae | Antillean snake eel |
| Ophichthus zophochir | Jordan & Gilbert, 1882 | Ophichthus zophochir | Ophichthidae | Yellow snake eel |