| Scientific Name | Author | English Name |
|---|---|---|
| Ahlia egmontis | (Jordan, 1884) | Key worm eel |
| Allips concolor | McCosker, 1972 | |
| Aplatophis chauliodus | Böhlke, 1956 | Fangtooth snake-eel |
| Aplatophis zorro | McCosker & Robertson, 2001 | Snaggle-toothed snake-eel |
| Aprognathodon platyventris | Böhlke, 1967 | Stripe eel |
| Apterichtus anguiformis | (Peters, 1877) | Slender finless eel |
| Apterichtus ansp | (Böhlke, 1968) | Academy eel |
| Apterichtus australis | McCosker & Randall, 2005 | Snake eel |
| Apterichtus caecus | (Linnaeus, 1758) | European finless eel |
| Apterichtus dunalailai | McCosker & Hibino, 2015 | |
| Apterichtus equatorialis | (Myers & Wade, 1941) | Equatorial eel |
| Apterichtus flavicaudus | (Snyder, 1904) | |
| Apterichtus gracilis | (Kaup, 1856) | |
| Apterichtus hatookai | Hibino, Shibata & Kimura, 2014 | Orange blotched eel |
| Apterichtus jeffwilliamsi | McCosker & Hibino, 2015 | |
| Apterichtus kendalli | (Gilbert, 1891) | Finless eel |
| Apterichtus keramanus | Machida, Hashimoto & Yamakawa, 1997 | |
| Apterichtus klazingai | (Weber, 1913) | Sharpsnout snake eel |
| Apterichtus malabar | McCosker & Hibino, 2015 | |
| Apterichtus monodi | (Roux, 1966) | |
| Apterichtus moseri | (Jordan & Snyder, 1901) | |
| Apterichtus mysi | McCosker & Hibino, 2015 | |
| Apterichtus nariculus | McCosker & Hibino, 2015 | |
| Apterichtus orientalis | Machida & Ohta, 1994 | |
| Apterichtus soyoae | Hibino, 2018 | |
| Apterichtus succinus | Hibino, McCosker & Kimura, 2016 | |
| Asarcenchelys longimanus | McCosker, 1985 | |
| Bascanichthys bascanium | (Jordan, 1884) | Sooty eel |
| Bascanichthys bascanoides | Osburn & Nichols, 1916 | Sooty sand eel |
| Bascanichthys ceciliae | Blache & Cadenat, 1971 | |
| Bascanichthys cylindricus | Meek & Hildebrand, 1923 | Round sand-eel |
| Bascanichthys deraniyagalai | Menon, 1961 | Indian longtailed sand-eel |
| Bascanichthys fijiensis | (Seale, 1935) | |
| Bascanichthys filaria | (Günther, 1872) | |
| Bascanichthys gaira | Moreno, Acero P. & Grijalba-Bendeck, 2016 | Colombian sand eel |
| Bascanichthys inopinatus | McCosker, Böhlke & Böhlke, 1989 | |
| Bascanichthys kabeyawan | Hibino & Ho, 2022 | Kabeyawan sand eel |
| Bascanichthys kirkii | (Günther, 1870) | Longtailed sand-eel |
| Bascanichthys longipinnis | (Kner & Steindachner, 1867) | |
| Bascanichthys myersi | (Herre, 1932) | |
| Bascanichthys panamensis | Meek & Hildebrand, 1923 | Panama sand eel |
| Bascanichthys paulensis | Storey, 1939 | |
| Bascanichthys pusillus | Seale, 1917 | |
| Bascanichthys ryukyuensis | Hibino, Yamashita & Sakurai, 2022 | Vine-like sand eel |
| Bascanichthys scuticaris | (Goode & Bean, 1880) | Whip eel |
| Bascanichthys sibogae | (Weber, 1913) | |
| Benthenchelys cartieri | Fowler, 1934 | |
| Benthenchelys indicus | Castle, 1972 | |
| Benthenchelys pacificus | Castle, 1972 | |
| Brachysomophis atlanticus | Blache & Saldanha, 1972 | |
| Brachysomophis cirrocheilos | (Bleeker, 1857) | Stargazer snake eel |
| Brachysomophis crocodilinus | (Bennett, 1833) | Crocodile snake eel |
| Brachysomophis henshawi | Jordan & Snyder, 1904 | Reptilian snake eel |
| Brachysomophis longipinnis | McCosker & Randall, 2001 | |
| Brachysomophis porphyreus | (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) | |
| Brachysomophis umbonis | McCosker & Randall, 2001 | Turret snake eel |
| Caecula kuro | (Kuroda, 1947) | |
| Caecula pterygera | Vahl, 1794 | Finny snake eel |
| Callechelys bilinearis | Kanazawa, 1952 | Twostripe snake eel |
| Callechelys bitaeniata | (Peters, 1877) | |
| Callechelys catostoma | (Schneider, 1801) | Black-striped snake eel |
| Callechelys cliffi | Böhlke & Briggs, 1954 | Sandy ridgefin eel |
| Callechelys eristigma | McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1972 | Spotted ridgefin eel |
| Callechelys galapagensis | McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1972 | |
| Callechelys guineensis | (Osório, 1893) | Shorttail snake eel |
| Callechelys leucoptera | (Cadenat, 1954) | |
| Callechelys lutea | Snyder, 1904 | Yellow-spotted snake eel |
| Callechelys maculatus | Chu, Wu & Jin, 1981 | |
| Callechelys marmorata | (Bleeker, 1854) | Marbled snake eel |
| Callechelys muraena | Jordan & Evermann, 1887 | Blotched snake eel |
| Callechelys papulosa | McCosker, 1998 | Blistered snake eel |
| Callechelys randalli | McCosker, 1998 | |
| Callechelys springeri | (Ginsburg, 1951) | Ridgefin eel |
| Caralophia loxochila | Böhlke, 1955 | Slantlip eel |
| Chauligenion camelopardalis | McCosker & Okamoto, 2016 | Giraffe-spotted snake eel |
| Cirrhimuraena calamus | (Günther, 1870) | Fringelip snake eel |
| Cirrhimuraena cheilopogon | (Bleeker, 1860) | |
| Cirrhimuraena chinensis | Kaup, 1856 | |
| Cirrhimuraena inhacae | (Smith, 1962) | Inhaca fringelip |
| Cirrhimuraena oliveri | (Seale, 1910) | |
| Cirrhimuraena orientalis | Nguyen, 1993 | |
| Cirrhimuraena paucidens | Herre & Myers, 1931 | |
| Cirrhimuraena playfairii | (Günther, 1870) | |
| Cirrhimuraena tapeinoptera | Bleeker, 1863 | |
| Cirrhimuraena yuanding | Tang & Zhang, 2003 | |
| Cirricaecula johnsoni | Schultz, 1953 | |
| Cirricaecula macdowelli | McCosker & Randall, 1993 | |
| Dalophis boulengeri | (Blache, Cadenat & Stauch, 1970) | |
| Dalophis cephalopeltis | (Bleeker, 1863) | |
| Dalophis imberbis | (Delaroche, 1809) | Armless snake eel |
| Dalophis multidentatus | Blache & Bauchot, 1972 | |
| Dalophis obtusirostris | Blache & Bauchot, 1972 | |
| Echelus myrus | (Linnaeus, 1758) | Painted eel |
| Echelus pachyrhynchus | (Vaillant, 1888) | |
| Echelus polyspondylus | McCosker & Ho, 2015 | Many-vertebrae snake eel |
| Echelus uropterus | (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) | Finned worm eel |
| Echiophis brunneus | (Castro-Aguirre & Suárez de los Cobos, 1983) | Fangjaw eel |
| Echiophis intertinctus | (Richardson, 1848) | Spotted spoon-nose eel |
| Echiophis punctifer | (Kaup, 1859) | Stippled spoon-nose eel |
| Ethadophis akkistikos | McCosker & Böhlke, 1984 | Indifferent eel |
| Ethadophis byrnei | Rosenblatt & McCosker, 1970 | Ordinary eel |
| Ethadophis merenda | Rosenblatt & McCosker, 1970 | Snack eel |
| Evips percinctus | McCosker, 1972 | False saddled snake eel |
| Glenoglossa wassi | McCosker, 1982 | Angler snake eel |
| Gordiichthys combibus | McCosker & Lavenberg, 2001 | |
| Gordiichthys ergodes | McCosker, Böhlke & Böhlke, 1989 | Irksone eel |
| Gordiichthys irretitus | Jordan & Davis, 1891 | Horsehair eel |
| Gordiichthys leibyi | McCosker & Böhlke, 1984 | String eel |
| Gordiichthys randalli | McCosker & Böhlke, 1984 | |
| Hemerorhinus heyningi | (Weber, 1913) | Molo snake eel |
| Hemerorhinus opici | Blache & Bauchot, 1972 | |
| Herpetoichthys fossatus | (Myers & Wade, 1941) | Mustachioed snake-eel |
| Herpetoichthys regius | (Richardson, 1848) | Ornate Snake Eel |
| Hyphalophis devius | McCosker & Böhlke, 1982 | |
| Kertomichthys blastorhinos | (Kanazawa, 1963) | |
| Ichthyapus acuticeps | (Barnard, 1923) | Sharpnose sand-eel |
| Ichthyapus acutirostris | Brisout de Barneville, 1847 | |
| Ichthyapus insularis | McCosker, 2004 | |
| Ichthyapus ophioneus | (Evermann & Marsh, 1900) | Surf eel |
| Ichthyapus platyrhynchus | (Gosline, 1951) | |
| Ichthyapus selachops | (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) | Smiling snake-eel |
| Ichthyapus vulturis | (Weber & de Beaufort, 1916) | Vulture sand eel |
| Lamnostoma kampeni | (Weber & de Beaufort, 1916) | Freshwater snake-eel |
| Lamnostoma mindora | (Jordan & Richardson, 1908) | |
| Lamnostoma orientale | (McClelland, 1844) | Oriental worm-eel |
| Lamnostoma polyophthalmum | (Bleeker, 1853) | Ocellated sand-eel |
| Lamnostoma taylori | (Herre, 1923) | |
| Leiuranus semicinctus | (Lay & Bennett, 1839) | Saddled snake-eel |
| Leiuranus versicolor | (Richardson, 1848) | Convict snake eel |
| Leptenchelys vermiformis | Myers & Wade, 1941 | Slender worm-eel |
| Leptocephalus ophichthoides | D'Ancona, 1928 | |
| Letharchus aliculatus | McCosker, 1974 | |
| Letharchus rosenblatti | McCosker, 1974 | Sailfin snake-eel |
| Letharchus velifer | Goode & Bean, 1882 | Sailfin eel |
| Lethogoleos andersoni | McCosker & Böhlke, 1982 | Forgetful snake eel |
| Leuropharus lasiops | Rosenblatt & McCosker, 1970 | Acned snake-eel |
| Luthulenchelys heemstraorum | McCosker, 2007 | |
| Malvoliophis pinguis | (Günther, 1872) | Halfband snake eel |
| Mixomyrophis longidorsalis | Hibino, Kimura & Golani, 2014 | Red Sea worm eel |
| Mixomyrophis pusillipinna | McCosker, 1985 | |
| Muraenichthys elerae | Fowler, 1934 | |
| Muraenichthys gymnopterus | (Bleeker, 1853) | |
| Muraenichthys philippinensis | Schultz & Woods, 1949 | Philippines worm eel |
| Muraenichthys schultzei | Bleeker, 1857 | Maimed snake eel |
| Muraenichthys sibogae | Weber & de Beaufort, 1916 | Siboga worm eel |
| Muraenichthys thompsoni | Jordan & Richardson, 1908 | Thompson's snake eel |
| Muraenichthys velinasalis | Hibino & Kimura, 2015 | Curtain-nose worm eel |
| Myrichthys aspetocheiros | McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1993 | Longfin spotted snake-eel |
| Myrichthys breviceps | (Richardson, 1848) | Sharptail eel |
| Myrichthys colubrinus | (Boddaert, 1781) | Harlequin snake eel |
| Myrichthys maculosus | (Cuvier, 1816) | Tiger snake eel |
| Myrichthys magnificus | (Abbott, 1860) | Magnificent snake eel |
| Myrichthys ocellatus | (Lesueur, 1825) | Goldspotted eel |
| Myrichthys paleracio | McCosker & Allen, 2012 | Whitenose snake eel |
| Myrichthys pantostigmius | Jordan & McGregor, 1898 | Clarion snake eel |
| Myrichthys pardalis | (Valenciennes, 1839) | Leopard eel |
| Myrichthys tigrinus | Girard, 1859 | Spotted snake-eel |
| Myrichthys xysturus | (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) | |
| Myrophis anterodorsalis | McCosker, Böhlke & Böhlke, 1989 | Longfin worm eel |
| Myrophis lepturus | Kotthaus, 1968 | |
| Myrophis microchir | (Bleeker, 1864) | Ordinary snake eel |
| Myrophis platyrhynchus | Breder, 1927 | Broadnose worm eel |
| Myrophis plumbeus | (Cope, 1871) | Leaden worm eel |
| Myrophis punctatus | Lütken, 1852 | Speckled worm-eel |
| Myrophis vafer | Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 | Pacific worm eel |
| Mystriophis crosnieri | Blache, 1971 | |
| Mystriophis rostellatus | (Richardson, 1848) | African spoon-nose eel |
| Neenchelys andamanensis | Hibino, Satapoomin & Kimura, 2015 | Andaman worm eel |
| Neenchelys buitendijki | Weber & de Beaufort, 1916 | Fintail serpent eel |
| Neenchelys cheni | (Chen & Weng, 1967) | Chen's worm eel |
| Neenchelys daedalus | McCosker, 1982 | New Guinea worm eel |
| Neenchelys diaphora | Ho, McCosker & Smith, 2015 | Longfin work eel |
| Neenchelys gracilis | Ho & Loh, 2015 | Fringe-nose worm-eel |
| Neenchelys mccoskeri | Hibino, Ho & Kimura, 2012 | McCosker’s worm eel |
| Neenchelys microtretus | Bamber, 1915 | Small-fin worm eel |
| Neenchelys nudiceps | Tashiro, Hibino & Imamura, 2015 | Indonesian deep-sea worm eel |
| Neenchelys parvipectoralis | Chu, Wu & Jin, 1981 | Mini-fin work eel |
| Neenchelys pelagica | Ho, McCosker & Smith, 2015 | Pelagic worm eel |
| Neenchelys similis | Ho, McCosker & Smith, 2015 | Slender work eel |
| Ophichthus alleni | McCosker, 2010 | |
| Ophichthus altipennis | (Kaup, 1856) | Highfin snake eel |
| Ophichthus aniptocheilos | McCosker, 2010 | |
| Ophichthus apachus | McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1998 | Thin snake eel |
| Ophichthus aphotistos | McCosker & Chen, 2000 | Dark deepwater snake-eel |
| Ophichthus apicalis | (Anonymous [Bennett], 1830) | Bluntnose snake-eel |
| Ophichthus arneutes | McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1998 | |
| Ophichthus asakusae | Jordan & Snyder, 1901 | |
| Ophichthus bicolor | McCosker & Ho, 2015 | Bicolored snake eel |
| Ophichthus bonaparti | (Kaup, 1856) | Napoleon snake eel |
| Ophichthus brachynotopterus | Karrer, 1983 | |
| Ophichthus brasiliensis | (Kaup, 1856) | |
| Ophichthus brevicaudatus | Chu, Wu & Jin, 1981 | |
| Ophichthus brevidorsalis | Chiu & Hibino, 2019 | Short dorsal-fin snake eel |
| Ophichthus brevirostris | McCosker & Ross, 2007 | Snubnose snake eel |
| Ophichthus celebicus | (Bleeker, 1856) | |
| Ophichthus cephalozona | Bleeker, 1864 | Dark-shouldered snake eel |
| Ophichthus chilkensis | Chaudhuri, 1916 | Chilka lake's snake eel |
| Ophichthus congroides | McCosker, 2010 | |
| Ophichthus cruentifer | (Goode & Bean, 1896) | Margined snake eel |
| Ophichthus cylindroideus | (Ranzani, 1839) | Dusky snake eel |
| Ophichthus echeloides | (D'Ancona, 1928) | |
| Ophichthus erabo | (Jordan & Snyder, 1901) | Blotched snake-eel |
| Ophichthus exourus | McCosker, 1999 | |
| Ophichthus fasciatus | (Chu, Wu & Jin, 1981) | |
| Ophichthus fowleri | (Jordan & Evermann, 1903) | Fowler's snake eel |
| Ophichthus frontalis | Garman, 1899 | Deathbanded snakeeel |
| Ophichthus genie | McCosker, 1999 | |
| Ophichthus gomesii | (Castelnau, 1855) | Shrimp eel |
| Ophichthus grandoculis | (Cantor, 1849) | |
| Ophichthus hirritus | McCosker, 2010 | |
| Ophichthus humanni | McCosker, 2010 | |
| Ophichthus hyposagmatus | McCosker & Böhlke, 1984 | Faintsaddled snake eel |
| Ophichthus ishiyamorum | McCosker, 2010 | |
| Ophichthus johnmccoskeri | Mohapatra, Ray, Mohanty & Mishra, 2018 | McCosker’s snake eel |
| Ophichthus kailashchandrai | Mohapatra, Ray, Mohanty & Mishra, 2020 | Kailash Chandra’s snake eel |
| Ophichthus kunaloa | McCosker, 1979 | |
| Ophichthus lentiginosus | McCosker, 2010 | |
| Ophichthus leonensis | Blache, 1975 | |
| Ophichthus limkouensis | Chen, 1929 | |
| Ophichthus lithinus | (Jordan & Richardson, 1908) | Evermann's snake eel |
| Ophichthus longipenis | McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1998 | Slender snake eel |
| Ophichthus machidai | McCosker, Ide & Endo, 2012 | |
| Ophichthus macrochir | (Bleeker, 1853) | Bigfin snake eel |
| Ophichthus macrops | Günther, 1910 | |
| Ophichthus maculatus | (Rafinesque, 1810) | |
| Ophichthus manilensis | Herre, 1923 | |
| Ophichthus marginatus | (Peters, 1855) | Shorthead snake-eel |
| Ophichthus mecopterus | McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1998 | Longarmed snake eel |
| Ophichthus megalops | Asano, 1987 | |
| Ophichthus melanoporus | Kanazawa, 1963 | Blackpored eel |
| Ophichthus melope | McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1998 | |
| Ophichthus menezesi | McCosker & Böhlke, 1984 | |
| Ophichthus microcephalus | Day, 1878 | |
| Ophichthus microstictus | McCosker, 2010 | |
| Ophichthus mystacinus | McCosker, 1999 | |
| Ophichthus naevius | Kodeeswaran, Kathirvelpandian, Mohapatra, Kumar & Sarkar, 2023 | |
| Ophichthus nigroventralis | Kodeeswaran, Mohapatra & Kumar, 2023 | Belly spotted snake eel |
| Ophichthus obtusus | McCosker, Ide & Endo, 2012 | |
| Ophichthus olivaceus | McCosker & Bogorodsky, 2020 | Olivaceous snake eel |
| Ophichthus omorgmus | McCosker & Böhlke, 1984 | Dottedline snake eel |
| Ophichthus ophis | (Linnaeus, 1758) | Spotted snake eel |
| Ophichthus polyophthalmus | Bleeker, 1864 | Many-eyed snake-eel |
| Ophichthus pullus | McCosker, 2005 | |
| Ophichthus puncticeps | (Kaup, 1859) | Palespotted eel |
| Ophichthus remiger | (Valenciennes, 1837) | Punctuated snake-eel |
| Ophichthus retrodorsalis | Liu, Tang & Zhang, 2010 | |
| Ophichthus rex | Böhlke & Caruso, 1980 | King snake eel |
| Ophichthus roseus | Tanaka, 1917 | |
| Ophichthus rotundus | Lee & Asano, 1997 | |
| Ophichthus rufus | (Rafinesque, 1810) | Rufus snake-eel |
| Ophichthus rugifer | Jordan & Bollman, 1890 | |
| Ophichthus rutidoderma | (Bleeker, 1852) | Olive snake eel |
| Ophichthus sangjuensis | (Ji & Kim, 2011) | Korean Snake eel |
| Ophichthus semilunatus | Hibino & Chiu, 2019 | Half-moon blotch snake eel |
| Ophichthus serpentinus | Seale, 1917 | |
| Ophichthus shaoi | McCosker & Ho, 2015 | Long bodied snake eel |
| Ophichthus singapurensis | Bleeker, 1864-65 | |
| Ophichthus spinicauda | (Norman, 1922) | Antillean snake eel |
| Ophichthus stenopterus | Cope, 1871 | |
| Ophichthus tchangi | Tang & Zhang, 2002 | |
| Ophichthus tetratrema | McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1998 | |
| Ophichthus tomioi | McCosker, 2010 | |
| Ophichthus triserialis | (Kaup, 1856) | Pacific snake eel |
| Ophichthus tsuchidae | Jordan & Snyder, 1901 | |
| Ophichthus unicolor | Regan, 1908 | Plain snake-eel |
| Ophichthus urolophus | (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) | Manetail snake eel |
| Ophichthus woosuitingi | Chen, 1929 | |
| Ophichthus zophochir | Jordan & Gilbert, 1882 | Yellow snake eel |
| Ophisurus macrorhynchos | Bleeker, 1853 | |
| Ophisurus serpens | (Linnaeus, 1758) | Serpent eel |
| Paraletharchus opercularis | (Myers & Wade, 1941) | Pouch snake eel |
| Paraletharchus pacificus | (Osburn & Nichols, 1916) | Pacific sailfin eel |
| Phaenomonas cooperae | Palmer, 1970 | Short-maned sand-eel |
| Phaenomonas longissima | (Cadenat & Marchal, 1963) | Short-maned Sand Eel |
| Phaenomonas pinnata | Myers & Wade, 1941 | Elastic eel |
| Phyllophichthus xenodontus | Gosline, 1951 | Flappy snake-eel |
| Pisodonophis boro | (Hamilton, 1822) | Rice-paddy eel |
| Pisodonophis cancrivorus | (Richardson, 1848) | Longfin snake-eel |
| Pisodonophis copelandi | Herre, 1953 | |
| Pisodonophis daspilotus | Gilbert, 1898 | Blunt-toothed snake eel |
| Pisodonophis hijala | (Hamilton, 1822) | |
| Pisodonophis hoevenii | (Bleeker, 1853) | Hoeven's snake eel |
| Pisodonophis hypselopterus | (Bleeker, 1851) | |
| Pisodonophis semicinctus | (Richardson, 1848) | Saddled snake eel |
| Pseudomyrophis atlanticus | Blache, 1975 | |
| Pseudomyrophis frio | (Jordan & Davis, 1891) | |
| Pseudomyrophis fugesae | McCosker, Böhlke & Böhlke, 1989 | Diminutive worm eel |
| Pseudomyrophis micropinna | Wade, 1946 | Plain worm eel |
| Pseudomyrophis nimius | Böhlke, 1960 | |
| Pylorobranchus hearstorum | McCosker, 2014 | |
| Pylorobranchus hoi | McCosker, Loh, Lin & Chen, 2012 | |
| Quassiremus ascensionis | (Studer, 1889) | Blackspotted snake eel |
| Quassiremus evionthas | (Jordan & Bollman, 1890) | Galapagos snake eel |
| Quassiremus nothochir | (Gilbert, 1890) | Smallfish snake-eel |
| Quassiremus polyclitellum | Castle, 1996 | |
| Rhinophichthus penicillatus | McCosker, 1999 | |
| Schismorhynchus labialis | (Seale, 1917) | Grooved-jaw worm eel |
| Schultzidia johnstonensis | (Schultz & Woods, 1949) | Johnston snake-eel |
| Schultzidia retropinnis | (Fowler, 1934) | Fringe-lipped worm eel |
| Scolecenchelys acutirostris | (Weber & de Beaufort, 1916) | Sharpnose worm eel |
| Scolecenchelys aoki | (Jordan & Snyder, 1901) | Misaki worm eel |
| Scolecenchelys australis | (Macleay, 1881) | Shortfinned worm eel |
| Scolecenchelys brevicaudata | Hibino & Kimura, 2015 | Short tail worm eel |
| Scolecenchelys breviceps | (Günther, 1876) | Short-headed worm eel |
| Scolecenchelys castlei | McCosker, 2006 | Deepwater big-eyed worm eel |
| Scolecenchelys chilensis | (McCosker, 1970) | Chilean worm eel |
| Scolecenchelys cookei | (Fowler, 1928) | |
| Scolecenchelys fuscapenis | McCosker, Ide & Endo, 2012 | |
| Scolecenchelys fuscogularis | Hibino, Kai & Kimura, 2013 | Dark throat worm eel |
| Scolecenchelys godeffroyi | (Regan, 1909) | Godeffroy |
| Scolecenchelys gymnota | (Bleeker, 1857) | Indo-Pacific slender worm-eel |
| Scolecenchelys iredalei | (Whitley, 1927) | Coral worm eel |
| Scolecenchelys laticaudata | (Ogilby, 1897) | Redfin worm-eel |
| Scolecenchelys macroptera | (Bleeker, 1857) | Narrow worm eel |
| Scolecenchelys nicholsarum | (Waite, 1904) | Nichols' worm eel |
| Scolecenchelys profundorum | (McCosker & Parin, 1995) | Deepwater worm eel |
| Scolecenchelys puhioilo | (McCosker, 1979) | |
| Scolecenchelys robusta | Hibino & Kimura, 2015 | Robust worm eel |
| Scolecenchelys vermiformis | (Peters, 1866) | |
| Scolecenchelys xorae | (Smith, 1958) | Orangehead worm-eel |
| Scytalichthys miurus | (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) | Shorttail viper eel |
| Skythrenchelys macrostomus | (Bleeker, 1864) | |
| Skythrenchelys zabra | Castle & McCosker, 1999 | Angry worm eel |
| Stictorhinus potamius | Böhlke & McCosker, 1975 | |
| Suculentophichthus nasus | Fricke, Golani & Appelbaum-Golani, 2015 | Red Sea flappy snake eel |
| Sympenchelys taiwanensis | Hibino, Ho & Kimura, 2015 | Taiwanese worm eel |
| Xestochilus nebulosus | (Smith, 1962) | Nebulous snake eel |
| Xyrias chioui | McCosker, Chen & Chen, 2009 | |
| Xyrias guineensis | (Blache, 1975) | |
| Xyrias multiserialis | (Norman, 1939) | Speckled snake eel |
| Xyrias revulsus | Jordan & Snyder, 1901 | Strict snake eel |
| Yirrkala calyptra | McCosker, 2011 | |
| Yirrkala chaselingi | Whitley, 1940 | |
| Yirrkala fusca | (Zuiew, 1793) | |
| Yirrkala gjellerupi | (Weber & de Beaufort, 1916) | |
| Yirrkala insolitus | McCosker, 1999 | |
| Yirrkala kaupii | (Bleeker, 1858) | |
| Yirrkala lumbricoides | (Bleeker, 1864) | Earthworm snake-eel |
| Yirrkala macrodon | (Bleeker, 1863) | |
| Yirrkala maculata | (Klausewitz, 1964) | |
| Yirrkala misolensis | (Günther, 1872) | Misol snake eel |
| Yirrkala moluccensis | (Bleeker, 1864) | |
| Yirrkala moorei | McCosker, 2006 | |
| Yirrkala omanensis | (Norman, 1939) | Oman snake eel |
| Yirrkala ori | McCosker, 2011 | |
| Yirrkala philippinensis | (Herre, 1936) | |
| Yirrkala tenuis | (Günther, 1870) | Thin sand-eel |