Ophichthidae

Clarion snake eel

Myrichthys pantostigmius

Forty Nine Point Four Centimeters Eel of Eastern Pacific

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

The Clarion snake eel (Myrichthys pantostigmius) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by David Starr Jordan and Ernest Alexander McGregor in 1898. It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from Mexico, in the eastern central Pacific Ocean.