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Synaphobranchidae
Abyssal cutthroat eel
Meadia abyssalis
Seventy Three Centimeters Eel of the Hawaiian Islands
Abyssal cutthroat eel is a marine fish from Indo-Pacific. It inhabits deep water. The largest recorded length is 73 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- True Eels
- Family
- Synaphobranchidae
- Genus
- Meadia
- Maximum length
- 73 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: Reunion, Mauritius, southern Japan, Hancock Seamount, and the Hawaiian and Society islands. Off Southern Brazil (Ref. 57911 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

