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spotted spoon-nose eel (Echiophis intertinctus)
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spotted spoon-nose eel (Echiophis intertinctus) specimen
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Ophichthidae

spotted spoon-nose eel

Echiophis intertinctus

Eel beneath Western Atlantic

  • Tropical
  • Regional distribution
  • Marine fish
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • North America
  • South America
  • Anguilliform
  • Large
  • Tropical fish

spotted spoon-nose eel is a marine fish from Western Atlantic. It inhabits marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 180 cm.

Maximum length
180 cm
Water
Marine
Body shape
anguilliform
Distribution
Western Atlantic: North Carolina, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to northern Brazil.
Conservation status
LCLeast Concern

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