Chlopsidae

collared eel

Kaupichthys nuchalis

Eel Facing Coral Bleaching

• Tropical
• Southern Hemisphere
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• Central America and the Caribbean
• North America
• South America
• Anguilliform
• Medium
• Tropical fish

The collared eel (Kaupichthys nuchalis) is an eel in the family Chlopsidae. It was described by James Erwin Böhlke in 1967. It is a tropical, marine eel known from coral reefs in the western Atlantic Ocean, including Texas, USA; the Bahamas, the Antilles, northern South America, the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean.