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Ophichthidae
speckled worm eel
Myrophis punctatus
The Body Rewrites Its Missing Parts
- Tropical
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South America
- Anguilliform
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Atlantic Ocean
Anguilliform
Mediumspeckled worm eel is a marine fish from Western Atlantic. It inhabits reef habitat. Records give a maximum length of 35.3 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- True Eels
- Family
- Ophichthidae
- Genus
- Myrophis
- Maximum length
- 35.3 cm
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Bermuda and North Carolina (USA) to Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico, the West Indies, and the coast of Central America. Also throughout Caribbean (Ref. 26938 ). Northwest Atlantic: Canada. Records from the eastern Atlantic need confirmation.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
