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Crocodile snake eel (Brachysomophis crocodilinus)
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Crocodile snake eel (Brachysomophis crocodilinus) specimen
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Ophichthidae

Crocodile snake eel

Brachysomophis crocodilinus

Crocodile snouted eel across the Indo Pacific

  • Tropical
  • Transcontinental
  • Marine fish
  • Indian Ocean
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Africa
  • East Asia
  • Oceania
  • Anguilliform
  • Large
  • Tropical fish

Crocodile snake eel is known from Indo-Pacific as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.

Maximum length
120 cm
Water
Marine
Body shape
anguilliform
Distribution
Indo-Pacific: East Africa in Tanzania, Seychelles and Mauritius (Ref. 3972 ), to the Society Islands (but not the Hawaiian Archipelago), north to Japan, south to Australia (Ref. 33390 ).
Conservation status
LCLeast Concern

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