Aphyonus is a genus of blind cusk eels from the family Aphyonidae.

A sampling of specimens of Aphyonus showed that the type species of Aphyonus, A. gelatinosus, was not closely related to the other known species in the genus, and a new genus Paraphyonus was named for these, including two newly identified species.

The result of this classification is that Aphyonus would be a monotypic genus.

[1] The four species of Aphyonus are:[2]

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