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Publications (117)      

1. Baldwin, Carole C. & John E. McCosker. 2001 Wrasses of the Galápagos Islands, with the description of a new deepwater species of Halichoeres (Perciformes: Labridae) Revista de Biologia Tropical 49(Supplement 1): 89-100.
2. Böhlke, Eugenia B. & John E. McCosker. 1982 Monopenchelys, a new eel genus, and redescription of the type species, Uropterygius acutus Parr (Pisces: Muraenidae) Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 134: 127-134.
3. Böhlke, Eugenia B. & John E. McCosker. 1997 Review of the moray eel genus Scuticaria and included species (Pisces: Anguilliformes: Muraenidae: Uropterygiinae) Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 148: 171-176.
4. Böhlke, Eugenia B. & John E. McCosker. 2001 The moray eels of Australia and New Zealand, with the description of two new species (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) Records of the Australian Museum 53(1): 71-102.
5. Böhlke, Eugenia B., John E. McCosker & David G. Smith. 1999 Muraenidae
6. Böhlke, Eugenia B., John E. McCosker & James E. Böhlke. 1989 Family Muraenidae
7. Böhlke, James E. & John E. McCosker. 1975 The status of the ophichthid eel genera Caecula Vahl and Sphagebranchus Bloch, and the description of a new genus and species from fresh waters in Brazil Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 127(1): 1-11.
8. Bradbury, Margaret G., John E. McCosker & Douglas J. Long. 1999 Batfishes of the Galápagos Islands with descriptions of two new species of Dibranchus (Teleostei: Ogcocephalidae) Revue française d'Aquariologie Herpétologie 25(3-4): 79-88.
9. Castle, Peter H. J. & John E. McCosker. 1986 Family No. 41: Muraenidae
10. Castle, Peter H. J. & John E. McCosker. 1999 A new genus and two new species of myrophine worm-eels, with comments on Muraenichthys and Scolecenchelys (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) Records of the Australian Museum 51(2-3): 113-122.
11. Claro, Rodolfo, R. Grant Gilmore, Jr., C. Richard Robins & John E. McCosker. 2000 Nuevos registros para la ictiofauna marina de Cuba. - New records for the marine ichthyofauna from Cuba Avicennia(12/13): 19-24.
12. Cohen, Daniel M. & John E. McCosker. 1998 A new species of bythitid fish, genus Lucifuga, from the Galápagos Islands Bulletin of Marine Science 63(1): 179-187.
13. Hibino, Yusuke & John E. McCosker. 2020 Resurrection of Ophichthus zophistius (Actinopterygii: Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), with a revised diagnosis of O. altipennis Zootaxa 4801(2): 328–342.
14. Hibino, Yusuke, Hsuan-Ching Ho & John E. McCosker. 2019 A new species of Muraenichthys (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from Taiwan, with redescription of Muraenichthys thompsoni Jordan & Richardson, 1908 Zootaxa 4702(1): 41–48.
15. Hibino, Yusuke, John E. McCosker & Fumihito Tashiro. 2019 Four new deepwater Ophichthus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from Japan with a redescription of Ophichthus pallens (Richardson 1848) Ichthyological Research.
16. Hibino, Yusuke, John E. McCosker & Seishi Kimura. 2013 Redescription of a rare worm eel, Muraenichthys macrostomus Bleeker 1864, a senior synonym of Skythrenchelys lentiginosa Castle and McCosker 1999 (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae, Myrophinae) Ichthyological Research.
17. Hibino, Yusuke, John E. McCosker & Seishi Kimura. 2016 A new species of Apterichtus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from the Marquesas Islands Zootaxa 4117(1): 146–150.
18. Ho, Hsuan-Ching, David G. Smith, John E. McCosker & Wouter Holleman. 2015 Systematics and biodiversity of eels (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes) of Taiwan Zootaxa 4060(1): 1–189.
19. Ho, Hsuan-Ching, David G. Smith, John E. McCosker, Yusuke Hibino, Kar-Hoe Loh, Kenneth A. Tighe & Kwang-Tsao Shao. 2015 Annotated checklist of eels (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes) from Taiwan Zootaxa 4060(1): 140–189.
20. Ho, Hsuan-Ching, David G. Smith, Kenneth A. Tighe, Yusuke Hibino & John E. McCosker. 2018 Checklist of eels of Taiwan (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes): An update Zootaxa 4454(1): 5–17.
21. Ho, Hsuan-Ching, John E. McCosker & David G. Smith. 2013 Revision of the worm eel genus Neenchelys (Ophichthidae: Myrophinae), with descriptions of three new species from the western Pacific Ocean Zoological Studies 52(58): 1-20.
22. Ho, Hsuan-Ching, John E. McCosker & David G. Smith. 2015 Renaming of three recently described eels of the genus Neenchelys (Teleostei: Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from the western Pacific Zootaxa 4060(1): 49–51.
23. Ho, Hsuan-Ching, John E. McCosker, David G. Smith & Kwang-Tsao Shao. 2015 Introduction to the systematics and biodiversity of eels (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes) of Taiwan Zootaxa 4060(1): 5–18.
24. Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Wouter Holleman, E. J. Hilton, David G. Smith & John E. McCosker. 2018 Systematics and biodiversity of eels (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes) of Taiwan (II) (cover & copyright page) Zootaxa 4454(1): 1–2.
25. Iwamoto, Tomio & John E. McCosker. 2001 Notes on Galápagos grenadiers (Pisces, Gadiformes, Macrouridae), with the description of a new species of Coryphaenoides Revista de Biologia Tropical 49(Supplement 1): 21-27.
Iwamoto, Tomio, John E. McCosker & O. Barton. 1976 Alepocephalid fishes of the genera Herwigia and Bathylaco, with the first Pacific record of H. kreffti Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 23(1): 55-59.
Klausewitz, Wolfgang, John E. McCosker, John E. Randall & H. Zetzsche. 1978 Hoplolatilus chlupatyi n. sp., un nouveau poisson marin des Philippines (Pisces, Perciformes, Percoidei, Branchiostegidae) Revue française d'Aquariologie Herpétologie 5(2): 41-48.
Long, Douglas J. & John E. McCosker. 1998 A new species of the morid genus Gadella (Teleostei:Gadiformes) from the Galápagos Islands Ichthyological Research 45(1): 1-5.
Long, Douglas J. & John E. McCosker. 1999 A new species of deep-water skate, Rajella eisenhardti, (Chondrichthyes: Rajidae) from the Galápagos Islands Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 112(1): 45-51.
McCosker, John E. 1970 A review of the eel genera Leptenchelys and Muraenichthys, with the descriptions of a new genus, Schismorhynchus, and a new species Muraenichthys chilensis Pacific Science 24(4): 506-516.
McCosker, John E. 1971 A new species of Parapercis (Pisces: Mugiloididae) from the Juan Fernández Islands Copeia 1971(4): 682-686.
McCosker, John E. 1972 Two new genera and two new species of western Pacific snake-eels (Apodes: Ophichthidae) Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4 39(10): 111-119.
McCosker, John E. 1974 A revision of the ophichthid eel genus Letharchus Copeia 1974(3): 619-629.
McCosker, John E. 1975 The eel genus Phaenomonas (Pisces, Ophichthidae) Pacific Science 29(4): 361-363.
McCosker, John E. 1977 The osteology, classification, and relationships of the eel family Ophichthidae Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4 41(1): 1-123.
McCosker, John E. 1979 The snake eels (Pisces, Ophichthidae) of the Hawaiian Islands, with the description of two new species Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4 42(2): 57-67.
McCosker, John E. 1982 A new genus and two new species of remarkable Pacific worm eels (Ophichthidae, subfamily Myrophinae) Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4 43(5): 59-66.
McCosker, John E. 1985 Two new genera and two new species of deepwater western Atlantic worm eels (Pisces: Ophichthidae) Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4 44(2): 9-15.
McCosker, John E. 1986 A new snake eel, Ophichthus bennettai (Pisces: Ophichthidae) from off western South Africa J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology Special Publication(39): 1-4.
McCosker, John E. 1986 Family No. 129: Anomalopidae
  McCosker, John E. 1987 Personal Communication.
McCosker, John E. 1998 [Review] The Fishes of the Galapágos Islands Copeia 1998(3): 809-812.
McCosker, John E. 1998 A revision of the snake-eel genus Callechelys (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) with the description of two new Indo-Pacific species and a new callechelyin genus Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4 50(7): 185-214.
McCosker, John E. 1998 Snake-eels of the genus Xyrias (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) Cybium 22(1): 7-13.
McCosker, John E. 1999 Pisces Anguilliformes: deepwater snake eels (Ophichthidae) from the New Caledonia region, southwest Pacific Ocean Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle(180): 571-588.
McCosker, John E. 2002 Notes on Hawaiian snake eels (Pisces: Ophichthidae), with comments on Ophichthus bonaparti Pacific Science 56(1): 23-34.
McCosker, John E. 2003 Ophichthyidae
McCosker, John E. 2004 A new species of finless snake eel (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from Ascension Island, with comments on Ichthyapus acutirostris Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4 55(7): 169-173.
McCosker, John E. 2005 A new species of deepwater snake eel, Ophichthys pullus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from Angola and Guinea-Bissau. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4 56(36): 669-674.
McCosker, John E. 2006 A new deepwater species of worm-eel, Scolecenchelys castlei (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), from New Zealand and Australia, with comments on S. breviceps and S. macroptera. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 36(1).
McCosker, John E. 2006 A new species of sand eel, Yirrkala moorei (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), from the South Pacific Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4 57(10): 373-377.
McCosker, John E. 2007 Luthulenchelys heemstraorum, a new genus and species of snake eel (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from KwaZulu-Natal, with comments on Ophichthus rutidoderma (Bleeker, 1853) and its synonyms Smithiana, Publications in Aquatic Biodiversity(7): 3-7.
McCosker, John E. 2008 Trachyscorpia osheri and Idiastion hageyi, two new species of deepwater scorpionfishes (Scorpaeniformes: Sebastidae, Scorpaenidae) from the Galápagos Islands Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4 59(3): 113-123.
McCosker, John E. 2010 Deepwater Indo-Pacific species of the snake-eel genus Ophichthus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), with the description of nine new species Zootaxa(2505): 1-39.
McCosker, John E. 2011 Two new Indo-Pacific species of the sand-eel genus Yirrkala (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) Smithiana, Publications in Aquatic Biodiversity(13): 45-50.
McCosker, John E. 2014 A gigantic deepwater worm eel (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from the Verde Island Passage, Philippine Archipelago In: The Coral Triangle. The 2011 Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition, [Unspecified Publisher]: 333-340.
McCosker, John E. & Andrew L. Stewart. 2006 Additions to the New Zealand marine eel fauna with the description of a new moray, Anarchias supremus (Teleostei: Muraenidae), and comments on the identity of Gymnothorax griffini Whitley & Phillips Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 36(2): 83-95.
McCosker, John E. & D. Ross Robertson. 2001 Aplatophis zorro, a new species of eastern Pacific snake-eel, with comments on New World ophichthid distributions (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) Revista de Biologia Tropical 49(Supplement 1): 13-19.
McCosker, John E. & David G. Smith. 1997 Two new Indo-Pacific morays of the genus Uropterygius (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) Bulletin of Marine Science 60(3): 1005-1014.
McCosker, John E. & David G. Smith. 2004 The argus moray, Muraena argus, added to the California fauna Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4 55(7): 248-249.
McCosker, John E. & Douglas J. Long. 1997 A new species of the deepwater cardinalfish Epigonus (Perciformes: Epigonidae) from the Galápagos Islands Ichthyological Research 44(2): 125-129.
McCosker, John E. & Eugenia B. Böhlke. 1984 Three new species of Western Atlantic snake eels (Pisces: Ophichthidae) of the genus Ophichthus Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 136: 24-31.
McCosker, John E. & Gerald R. Allen. 2012 Description of a new snake eel (Pisces: Ophichthidae: Myrichthys) from the Philippines aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology 18(1): 35-40 + cover.
McCosker, John E. & Hsuan-Ching Ho. 2015 New species of the snake eels Echelus and Ophichthus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from Taiwan Zootaxa 4060(1): 71–85.
McCosker, John E. & James E. Böhlke. 1982 Three new genera and two new species of deepwater western Atlantic snake-eels (Pisces: Ophichthidae) Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 134: 113-121.
McCosker, John E. & James E. Böhlke. 1984 A review of the snake eel genera Gordiichthys and Ethadophis, with descriptions of new species and comments on related Atlantic bascanichthyins (Pisces: Ophichthidae) Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 136: 32-44.
McCosker, John E. & John E. Randall. 1977 Three new species of Indo-Pacific moray eels (Pisces: Muraenidae) Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4 41(3): 161-168.
McCosker, John E. & John E. Randall. 1982 Synonymies of Indian Ocean eels, with the description of Gymnothorax enigmaticus, a moray previously known as G. ruppeli Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4 43(2): 17-24.
McCosker, John E. & John E. Randall. 1993 Finless snake-eels of the genus Cirricaecula (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), with the description of C. macdowelli from Taiwan Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 40(2): 189-192.
McCosker, John E. & John E. Randall. 2001 Revision of the snake-eel genus Brachysomophis (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), with description of two new species and comments on the species of Mystriophis Indo-Pacific Fishes(33): 1-32.
McCosker, John E. & John E. Randall. 2002 Ophichthys melanochir Bleeker, 1865, a junior synonym of the highfin snake eel Ophichthus altipennis (Kaup, 1856) Copeia 2002(3): 798-799.
McCosker, John E. & John E. Randall. 2005 Notes on the snake eels of the genera Apterichtus and Ichthyapus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) of the Central and South Pacific, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 800: 1-11.
McCosker, John E. & John E. Randall. 2007 A new genus and species of mud-dwelling moray eel (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) from Indonesia Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4 58(22): 469-476.
McCosker, John E. & John E. Randall. 2008 A new species of Indo-Pacific moray eel (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) from Indonesia Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4 59(16): 711-714.
McCosker, John E. & M. D. Lagios. 1979 The biology and physiology of the living Coelacanth Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences(134): 1-175.
McCosker, John E. & Nik V. Parin. 1995 A new species of deepwater worm-eel, Muraenichthys profundorum (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), from the Nazca Ridge Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 42(3/4): 231-235.
McCosker, John E. & P. C. Phillips. 1979 Occurrence of the heterenchelyid eel Pythonichthys asodes at Costa Rica and El Salvador Bulletin of Marine Science 29(4): 599-600.
McCosker, John E. & Peter H. J. Castle. 1986 Family No. 42: Ophichthidae
McCosker, John E. & Peter N. Psomadakis. 2018 Snake eels of the genus Ophichthus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from Myanmar (Indian Ocean) with the description of two new species Zootaxa 4526(1): 71–83.
McCosker, John E. & R. J. Lavenberg. 2001 Gordiichthys combibus, a new species of eastern Pacific sand-eel (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) Revista de Biologia Tropical 49(Supplement 1): 7-12.
McCosker, John E. & Richard H. Rosenblatt. 1972 Eastern Pacific snake-eels of the genus Callechelys (Apodes: Ophichthidae) Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 17(2): 15-24.
McCosker, John E. & Richard H. Rosenblatt. 1975 The moray eels (Pisces: Muraenidae) of the Galapagos Islands, with new records and synonymies of extralimital species Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4 40(13): 417-427.
McCosker, John E. & Richard H. Rosenblatt. 1987 Notes on the biology, taxonomy, and distribution of the flashlight fishes (Beryciformes: Anomalopidae) Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 34(2): 157-164.
McCosker, John E. & Richard H. Rosenblatt. 1993 A revision of the snake eel genus Myrichthys (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) with the description of a new eastern Pacific species Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4 48(8): 153-169.
  McCosker, John E. & Richard H. Rosenblatt. 1995
McCosker, John E. & Richard H. Rosenblatt. 1998 A revision of the eastern Pacific snake-eel genus Ophichthus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) with the description of six new species Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4 50(19): 397-432.
McCosker, John E. & S. W. Ross. 2007 A new deepwater species of snake eel genus Ophichthus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from North Carolina Copeia: 783-787.
McCosker, John E. & Y.-Y. Chen. 2000 A new species of deepwater snake-eel, Ophichthus aphotistos, with comments on Neenchelys retropinna (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from Taiwan Ichthyological Research 47(4): 353-357.
McCosker, John E. & Yusuke Hibino. 2015 A review of the finless snake eels of the genus Apterichtus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), with the description of five new species Zootaxa 3941(1): 49–78.
McCosker, John E., Albert Baranes & Daniel Golani. 1993 Description of the adult of Leptocephalus echeloides d’Ancona (1928), a deepwater snake eel, genus Ophichthus (Ophichthidae), from the Gulf of Aqaba Cybium 17(2): 165-170.
McCosker, John E., Eugenia B. Böhlke & James E. Böhlke. 1989 Family Ophichthidae
McCosker, John E., G. Merlin, Douglas J. Long, R. Grant Gilmore, Jr. & C. Villon. 1997 Deepslope fishes collected during the 1995 eruption of Isla Fernandina, Galápagos Noticias de Galápagos(58): 22-26.
McCosker, John E., John S. Stephens, Jr. & Richard H. Rosenblatt. 2003 Cottoclinus canops, a new genus and species of blenny (Perciformes: Labrisomidae) from the Galápagos Islands Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4 54(8): 155-160.
McCosker, John E., Kar-Hoe Loh, James Lin & Hong-Ming Chen. 2012 Pylorobranchus hoi, a new genus and species of myrophine worm-eel from Taiwan (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) Zoological Studies 51(7): 1188-1194.
McCosker, John E., Kiyotaka Hatooka, Kunio Sasaki & Jack T. Moyer. 1984 Japanese moray eels of the genus Uropterygius Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 31(3): 261-267.
  McCosker, John E., Rodrigo H. Bustamante & Gerald M. Wellington. 2003 The freshwater eel, Anguilla marmorata, discovered in Galápagos Noticias de Galápagos(62): 2-6.
McCosker, John E., S. Anderson, J. Richards & M. Love. 2004 First record of the Cape cigarfish, Cubiceps capensis (Family Nomeidae), from California waters. California Fish and Game 90(3): 157-159.
McCosker, John E., Sachiko Ide & Hiromitsu Endo. 2012 Three new species of ophichthid eels (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from Japan Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Series A (Zoology) Supplement(6): 1-16.
McCosker, John E., Sergey V. Bogorodsky, Ahmad O. Mal & Tilman J. Alpermann. 2020 Description of a new snake eel Ophichthus olivaceus (Teleostei: Anguilliformes, Ophichthidae) from the Red Sea Zootaxa 4750(1): 31–48.
McCosker, John E., W.-l. Chen & H.-M. Chen. 2009 Comments on the snake-eel genus Xyrias (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) with the description of a new species Zootaxa(2289): 61-67.
Mincarone, M. M. & John E. McCosker. 2004 Eptatretus lakeside sp. nov., a new species of five-gilled hagfish (Myxinidae) from the Galápagos Islands Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4 55(6): 162-168.
Munroe, Thomas A. & John E. McCosker. 2001 Redescription of Symphurus diabolicus, a poorly-known, deep-sea tonguefish (Pleuronectiformes: Cynoglossidae) from the Galápagos Archipelago Revista de Biologia Tropical 49(Supplement 1): 187-198.
Nemtzov, S. C. & John E. McCosker. 1987 First record of the snake-eel Brachysomophis cirrhochilus in the Red Sea Israel Journal of Zoology 34: 13-14.
Okamoto, Makoto, Douglas J. Long, Rodolfo Claro & John E. McCosker. 2025 A new species of epigonid fish genus Epigonus (Teleostei: Epigonidae) from Cuba and the first records of E. fragilis from the western South Pacific and Taiwan Ichthyological Research.
Poss, Stuart G., John E. McCosker & Carole C. Baldwin. 2010 A new species of Scorpaenodes (Pisces: Scorpaenidae) from the Galápagos and Cocos islands with discussions of the limits of Scorpaenodes and Thysanichthys Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4(61): 235-267.
Randall, John E. & John E. McCosker. 1975 The eels of Easter Island with a description of a new moray Contributions in Science of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County(264): 1-32.
Randall, John E. & John E. McCosker. 1982 Two new serranid fishes of the genus Anthias from the Central Pacific Journal of Aquariculture and Aquatic Sciences 2(3): 59-69.
Randall, John E. & John E. McCosker. 1989 Pseudochromis pylei (Teleostei: Perciformes; Pseudochromidae) a new dottyback from Indonesia Revue française d'Aquariologie Herpétologie 16(1): 7-10.
Randall, John E. & John E. McCosker. 1992 Revision of the fish genus Luzonichthys (Perciformes: Serranidae: Anthiinae), with descriptions of two new species Indo-Pacific Fishes(21): 1-21.
Randall, John E. & John E. McCosker. 1992 Two new damselfishes of the genus Chromis (Perciformes: Pomacentridae) from the South Pacific Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4 47(12): 329-337.
  Randall, John E. & John E. McCosker. 1993 Social mimicry in fishes Revue française d'Aquariologie Herpétologie 20(1): 5-8.
Randall, John E. & John E. McCosker. 2002 Parapercis lata, a new species of sandperch (Perciformes: Pinguipedidae) from the central Pacific Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4 53(8): 87-93.
Richards, William J. & John E. McCosker. 1998 A new species of the genus Bellator (Pisces: Triglidae), with comments on the trigloids of the Galápagos Islands Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 111(4): 936-941.
Rosenblatt, Richard H. & John E. McCosker. 1970 A key to the genera of the ophichthid eels, with descriptions of two new genera and three new species from the eastern Pacific Pacific Science 24(4): 494-505.
Rosenblatt, Richard H. & John E. McCosker. 1988 A new species of Acanthemblemaria from Malpelo Island, with a key to the Pacific members of the genus (Pisces: Chaenopsidae) Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4 45(7): 103-110.
Smith, David G. & John E. McCosker. 1999 Ophichthidae
Tighe, Kenneth A. & John E. McCosker. 2003 Two new species of the genus Chlopsis (Teleostei: Anguilliformes: Chlopsidae) from the Southwestern Pacific. Zootaxa 236: 1-8.
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