Parophidion

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Parophidion schmidti - pone.0010676.g025.png | image_caption = ''Parophidion schmidti'' | taxon = Parophidion | authority = Tortonese, 1954 | type_species = ''Ophidium vassali'' | type_species_authority = Risso, 1810<ref name = CoF>{{Cof record|genid=7440|title=''Parophidion''|access-date=15 July 2018}}</ref> }}

'''''Parophidion''''' is a genus of cusk-eels found in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.<ref name = FAO>{{cite book | author1 = Jørgen G. Nielsen | author2 = Daniel M. Cohen | author3 = Douglas F. Markle | author4 = C. Richard Robins | name-list-style = amp | year = 1999 | title = FAO Species Catalogue Volume 18 Ophidiiform Fishes of the World (Order Ophidiiformes) An annotated and illustrated catalogue of pearlfishes, cusk-eels, brotulas and other ophidiiform fishes known to date | publisher = Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome | isbn = 9251043752 | pages = 43–44}}</ref>

==Species== There are currently two recognized species in this genus:<ref>{{FishBase genus | genus = Parophidion| month = June | year = 2012}}</ref> * ''Parophidion schmidti'' <small>(Woods & Kanazawa, 1951)</small> (Dusky cusk-eel) - western Atlantic Bermuda to northern South America. * ''Parophidion vassali'' <small>(A. Risso, 1810)</small> - Mediterranean and adjacent areas of the eastern Atlantic.

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Category:Ophidiidae