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Irksone eel
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Anguilliformes
Family:	Ophichthidae
Genus:	Gordiichthys
Species:	G. ergodes
Binomial name
Gordiichthys ergodes McCosker, E. B. Böhlke & J. E. Böhlke, 1989

The Irksone eel (Gordiichthys ergodes) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by John E. McCosker, Eugenia Brandt Böhlke, and James Erwin Böhlke in 1989. It is a marine, temperate water-dwelling eel which is known from a single specimen discovered in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico, in the western central Atlantic Ocean. From the holotype, it is known to dwell at a depth range of 10 to 189 meters (33 to 620 ft).

References

1. McCosker, J. (2015). "Gordiichthys ergodes". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T199259A2575782. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-2.RLTS.T199259A2575782.en. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
2. Common names of Gordiichthys ergodes at www.fishbase.org.
3. ^ Gordiichthys ergodes at www.fishbase.org.
4. McCosker, J. E. , E. B. Böhlke and J. E. Böhlke 1989 Family Ophichthidae (pp. 254-412). In: E. B. Böhlke (ed.) . Memoirs of the Sears Foundation of Marine Research Mem. 1 (pt 9).

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