Saurenchelys is a genus of eels in the duckbill eel family Nettastomatidae. Species There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus: Saurenchelys cancrivora W. K. H. Peters, 1864 (slender sorcerer) Saurenchelys cognita D. G. Smith, 1989 (Long-face wire eel) Saurenchelys elongata (Kotthaus, 1968) Saurenchelys fierasfer (D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1901) (Black-tail duckbill eel) Saurenchelys finitima (Whitley, 1935) (Whitsunday wire eel) Saurenchelys gigas J. Lin, D. G. Smith & K. T. Shao, 2015 (Giant duckbill eel) Saurenchelys lateromaculata (D'Ancona, 1928) Saurenchelys meteori Klausewitz & Zajonz, 2000 Saurenchelys petersi F. Day, 1878 Saurenchelys stylura (E. H. M. Lea, 1913) (Pillar wire eel) Saurenchelys taiwanensis Karmovskaya, 2004 References Nettastomatidae Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters