Chlopsidae

Chlopsis longidens

Chlopsis longidens

Chlopsid Fish of Eastern Pacific

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• South America
• Anguilliform
• Tropical fish

Chlopsis longidens is an eel in the family Chlopsidae. It was described by Samuel Garman in 1899, originally under the genus Atopichthys. It is known from a single leptocephalus specimen collected from between Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, in the central eastern Pacific Ocean.