Synaphobranchidae

Atractodenchelys robinsorum

Atractodenchelys robinsorum

Deep slope eel burrowing into Bellona mud

• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• Anguilliform

Atractodenchelys robinsorum is an eel in the family Synaphobranchidae (cutthroat eels). It was described by Emma Stanislavovna Karmovskaya in 2003. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from the Chesterfield Islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.