Ophichthidae

Chen's worm eel

Neenchelys cheni

Thirty Five Centimeters Eel from Taiwanese Waters

• Tropical
• Transcontinental
• Marine fish
• Indian Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• East Asia
• Oceania
• Southeast Asia
• West Asia
• Medium
• Tropical fish

Neenchelys cheni is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Johnson T. F. Chen and Herman Ting-Chen Weng in 1967, originally under the genus Myrophis. It is a marine, temperate water-dwelling eel which is known from Taiwan, in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.