– Snake eels, worm eels Sharpsnout snake eel Apterichtus klazingai (Weber, 1913) (East Africa to the Marshall Islands) Stargazer snake eel Brachysomophis cirrocheilos (Bleeker, 1857) (Indo-Pacific) Crocoddile snake eel Brachysomophis crocodilinus (Bennett, 1831) (Indo-Pacific and Eastern Pacific) Black striped snake eel Callechelys catostoma (Forster in Blich and Schneider, 1801) (Indonesia to Society Islands) Marbled snake eel Callechelys marmorata (Bleeker, 1853) (East Africa to Society Islands) Culverin Leiuranus semicinctus (Lay and Bennett, 1839) (East Africa to Polynesia) Slender snake eel Muraenichthys macropterus Bleeker 1857 (East Africa to the Society Islands) Harlequin snake eel Myrichthys colubrinus (Boddaert, 1781) (Red Sea to the Society Islands) Spotted snake eel Myrichthys maculosus (Cuvier, 1817) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Polynesia) Johnston snake eel Schultzidia johnstonensis (Schultz and Woods, 1949) (Indo-Pacific) Family Congridae – Conger eels Speckled garden eel Gorgasia sp. (Western Pacific including Coral Sea, Guam and Marshall Islands) Black edged conger Conger cinereus Rueppell, 1830 (East Africa and Red Sea to Easter Island) Spotted garden eel Heteroconger hassi (Klausewitz and Eibl-Ebesfeldt, 1959) (Red Sea to Samoa and Line Islands, north to Ryukyu Islands) Order Clupeiformes Family Clupeidae – Herrings, pilchards, sardines Fourspot herring Herklotsichthys quadrimaculatus (Rueppell, 1837) (East Africa to Samoa and Marshall Islands, Hawaii) Blue-backed sprat Spratelloides delicatulus (Bennett, 1831) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Society Islands) Order Gonorhynchiformes Family Chanidae - Milkfish Milkfish Chanos chanos (Forskal, 1775) (East Africa to Polynesia) Order Siluriformes Family Plotosidae - Eeltail catfishes White-lipped catfish Paraplotosus albilabris (Valenciennes, 1840) (Indonesia, Melanesia and northern Australia) Striped catfish Plotosus lineatus (Thunberg, 1787) (East Africa and Red Sea to Samoa) Order Aulopiformes Family Synodontidae – Lizardfishes Slender lizardfish Saurida gracilis (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824) (Indo-Pacific) Two-spot lizardfish Synodus binotatus Schultz, 1953 (Indo-Pacific) Clearfin lizardfish Synodus dermatogenys Fowler, 1912 (Indo-Pacific) Arrowtooth lizardfish Synodus doaki Russell and Cressey, 1979 (Hawaii, New Zealand, eastern Australia, Japan and East Africa) Javelinfish Synodus jaculum Russell and Cressey, 1979 (Scattered records from the Line Islands in the central Pacific to Natal and the Comoro Islands) Redmarbled lizardfish Synodus rubromarmoratus Russell and Cressey, 1979 (Only known from Taiwan, Philippines and the Great Barrier Reef) Reef lizardfish, variegated lizardfish Synodus variegatus (Lacepede, 1803) (Tropical Australia south to Jutten Bay, Western Australia and Merimbula, New South Wales. Also Lord Howe Island and widespread in the Indo-Pacific region) (Indo-Pacific) Snakefish Trachinocephalus myops (Forster in Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (Indo-Pacific and Atlantic, tropical to warm temperate)