Ophichthidae

Philippines worm eel

Muraenichthys philippinensis

Eel Reaching Thirty Centimeters

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• Southeast Asia
• Anguilliform
• Medium
• Tropical fish

The Philippines worm eel (Muraenichthys philippinensis) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Leonard Peter Schultz and Loren Paul Woods in 1949. It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the Philippines (from which its species epithet and common name are derived), in the western central Pacific Ocean.