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Ophichthidae
sailfin eel
Letharchus velifer
Fish Reaching Fifty One Centimeters in the Atlantic Ocean
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- North America
- Anguilliform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Anguilliform
Largesailfin eel is known from Western Atlantic as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- True Eels
- Family
- Ophichthidae
- Genus
- Letharchus
- Maximum length
- 51 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: North Carolina to northeastern Florida in USA and northeastern Gulf of Mexico.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
