Moringuidae

spaghetti eel

Moringua edwardsi

Fifteen Centimeters Eel from South American Waters

• Tropical
• Southern Hemisphere
• Regional distribution
• Atlantic Ocean
• Central America and the Caribbean
• North America
• South America
• Anguilliform
• Medium
• Tropical fish

Moringua edwardsi, the common spaghetti eel, is an eel in the family Moringuidae (spaghetti/worm eels). It was described by David Starr Jordan and Charles Harvey Bollman in 1889, originally under the genus Stilbiscus. It is a subtropical, marine eel known from the western Atlantic Ocean, including Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Florida, Venezuela, the Virgin Islands, British, and the Virgin Islands of the United States.