Callechelys is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. It currently contains the following fifteen species:
- Callechelys bilinearis <small>Kanazawa, 1952</small> (twostripe snake eel)
- Callechelys bitaeniata <small>(W. K. H. Peters, 1877)</small>
- Callechelys catostoma <small>(J. G. Schneider & J. R. Forster, 1801)</small> (black-striped snake eel)
- Callechelys cliffi <small>J. E. Böhlke & Briggs, 1954</small> (sandy ridgefin eel)
- Callechelys eristigma <small>McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1972</small> (spotted ridgefin eel)
- Callechelys galapagensis <small>McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1972</small>
- Callechelys guineensis <small>(Osório, 1893)</small> (shorttail snake eel)
- Callechelys leucoptera <small>(Cadenat, 1954)</small>
- Callechelys lutea <small>Snyder, 1904</small> (yellow-spotted snake eel)
- Callechelys maculatus <small>Y. T. Chu, H. L. Wu & X. B. Jin, 1981</small>
- Callechelys marmorata <small>(Bleeker, 1853)</small> (marbled snake eel)
- Callechelys muraena <small>D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1887</small> (blotched snake eel)
- Callechelys papulosa <small>McCosker, 1998</small>
- Callechelys randalli <small>McCosker, 1998</small>
- Callechelys springeri <small>(Ginsburg, 1951)</small> (ridgefin eel)
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