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Ophidiidae
upsilon cusk-eel
Lepophidium pheromystax
Twenty Seven Centimeters Eel of Mexican Waters
- Tropical
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South America
- Elongated
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Elongated
Mediumupsilon cusk-eel is known from Western Atlantic as a marine fish. It occurs in estuaries and brackish water.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Cusk-eels
- Family
- Ophidiidae
- Genus
- Lepophidium
- Maximum length
- 27 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: along the northern coast of South America from Colombia to Cabo Orange, Brazil (north of the mouth of the Amazon); including Gulf of Campeche, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, shelf area from northern Puerto Rico to the US Virgin Islands.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
