Familia: Ophichthidae
Subfamilia: Ophichthinae
Genus: Apterichtus
Species: Apterichtus flavicaudus

Name

Apterichtus flavicaudus (Snyder, 1904))

• Holotype: USNM 50863.
• Paratype: CAS-SU 7509 (1).

Type locality: Auau Channel, between Mauai Island and Lanai Island, Hawaiian Islands, Albatross station 3874, depth 21-28 fathoms.

Etymology: From flavus (= yellow), and caudus (= tail), referring to “lemon yellow” color on posterior half of body in living specimens, (from The ETYFish Project).

Vernacular names

References

• McCosker, J.E. & Hibino, Y. 2015: A review of the finless snake eels of the genus Apterichtus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), with the description of five new species. Zootaxa 3941(1): 49–78. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3941.1.2. Reference page. 
• Snyder, J.O. 1904. A catalogue of the shore fishes collected by the steamer "Albatross" about the Hawaiian Islands in 1902. Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission 22 [1902]: 513–538, Pls. 1–13. Reference page.