Blind swamp eel

Blind swamp eel
Blind swamp eel
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Synbranchiformes
Family: Synbranchidae
Genus: Ophisternon
Species: O. infernale
Binomial name
Ophisternon infernale
(Hubbs, 1938)

The blind swamp eel (Ophisternon infernale) is a species of fish in the Synbranchidae family. It is endemic to Mexico where it lives in cave systems and is known in Spanish as the anguila ciega.

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