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Robust cusk-eel (Lepophidium robustum)
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Robust cusk-eel (Lepophidium robustum) specimen
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Ophidiidae

Robust cusk-eel

Lepophidium robustum

Eel beneath the Caribbean Sea

  • Tropical
  • Regional distribution
  • Marine fish
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Central America and the Caribbean
  • Anguilliform
  • Compressed cross-section
  • Medium
  • Tropical fish

Robust cusk-eel is known around Western Atlantic as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and the largest recorded length is 23 cm.

Maximum length
23 cm
Water
Marine
Body shape
anguilliform
Distribution
Western Atlantic: Caribbean Sea (from western Panama to north of Trinidad).
Conservation status
LCLeast Concern

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