- Animals
- ›Chordates
- ›Vertebrates
- ›Ray-finned Fishes
- ›Tarpons, Eels, and Allies
- ›True Eels
- ›Synaphobranchoidei
- ›Cutthroat Eels
- ›Typical Cutthroat Eels
- ›Synaphobranchus

Shortdorsal Cutthroat Eel
Synaphobranchus brevidorsalis
The shortdorsal cutthroat eel (Synaphobranchus brevidorsalis, also known commonly as the shortfin cut-throat eel) is an eel in the family Synaphobranchidae (cutthroat eels). It was described by Albert Günther in 1887. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from the Indo-Pacific and western central Atlantic Ocean, including Zanzibar, Maldives, Australia, Japan, Suriname, and the Gulf of Mexico. It dwells at a depth range of 900 to 3,000 metres (3,000 to 9,800 ft), most often...
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 621408.