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Ophichthidae
Chinese beard eel
Cirrhimuraena chinensis
Eel of Indonesian Waters
Chinese beard eel is a fish from Western Pacific. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 54.8 cm. Its body is an eel-like body.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- True Eels
- Family
- Ophichthidae
- Genus
- Cirrhimuraena
- Maximum length
- 54.8 cm
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Western Pacific: China and Papua New Guinea (Ref. 6993 ); Indonesia (Ref. 94476 ); South China Sea (Ref. 36648 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

