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Ophichthidae
smiling sand eel
Ichthyapus selachops
Fifty Four Centimeters Eel of Eastern Pacific
smiling sand eel is a marine fish of Eastern Pacific. The species occupies marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 54 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- True Eels
- Family
- Ophichthidae
- Genus
- Ichthyapus
- Maximum length
- 54 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Eastern Pacific: Gulf of California, Costa Rica to Ecuador, including the Galapagos Islands.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

