{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Mystriophis | authority = Kaup, 1856 | type_species = ''Ophisurus rostellatus'' | type_species_authority = Richardson, 1848<ref name = CofF>{{Cof family|family=Ophichthidae|access-date=13 November 2024}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. }}

[[File:Ophichthys_rostratus_-_1809-1845_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ15200135.tif | thumb | center | An illustration of ''Mystriophis rostellatus'' in ''Iconographia Zoologica'', a 19th-century collection of zoological images]] '''''Mystriophis''''' is a genus of eels in the snake eel family '''Ophichthidae'''. It currently contains the following species:

* ''Mystriophis crosnieri'' <small>Blache, 1971</small> * ''Mystriophis rostellatus'' <small>(J. Richardson, 1848)</small> (African spoon-nose eel)

==References== {{Reflist}} * {{FishBase genus | genus = Mystriophis| month = June | year = 2011}}

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Category:Ophichthinae Category:Mystriophis

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