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Ophidiidae
Sooty cusk-eel
Lepophidium zophochir
Twenty Four Point Three Centimeters Eel of Western Atlantic
- Black
- Tropical
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- South America
- Anguilliform
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Black
Tropical
Regional distribution
Anguilliform
MediumSooty cusk-eel is known around Western Atlantic as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and records give a maximum length of 24.3 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Cusk-eels
- Family
- Ophidiidae
- Genus
- Lepophidium
- Maximum length
- 24.3 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: coast of northern South America from the Guianas to Trinidad and along the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and northern Colombia (off Barranquilla).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
