title: Callechelys
text: # Callechelys
  
  Callechelys is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. It currently contains the following fifteen species:
  
  * Callechelys bilinearis Kanazawa, 1952 (twostripe snake eel)
  * Callechelys bitaeniata (W. K. H. Peters, 1877)
  * Callechelys catostoma (J. G. Schneider & J. R. Forster, 1801) (black-striped snake eel)
  * Callechelys cliffi J. E. Böhlke & Briggs, 1954 (sandy ridgefin eel)
  * Callechelys eristigma McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1972 (spotted ridgefin eel)
  * Callechelys galapagensis McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1972
  * Callechelys guineensis (Osório, 1893) (shorttail snake eel)
  * Callechelys leucoptera (Cadenat, 1954)
  * Callechelys lutea Snyder, 1904 (yellow-spotted snake eel)
  * Callechelys maculatus Y. T. Chu, H. L. Wu & X. B. Jin, 1981
  * Callechelys marmorata (Bleeker, 1853) (marbled snake eel)
  * Callechelys muraena D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1887 (blotched snake eel)
  * Callechelys papulosa McCosker, 1998
  * Callechelys randalli McCosker, 1998
  * Callechelys springeri (Ginsburg, 1951) (ridgefin eel)
  