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Ophichthidae
shrimp eel
Ophichthus gomesii
Ninety One Point Four Centimeters Eel from Western Atlantic
- Tropical
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South America
- Anguilliform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Anguilliform
Largeshrimp eel is known around Western Atlantic as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and records give a maximum length of 91.4 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- True Eels
- Family
- Ophichthidae
- Genus
- Ophichthus
- Maximum length
- 91.4 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Massachusetts, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to southern Brazil; absent in the Bahamas and most Caribbean islands. Northwest Atlantic: Canada (Ref. 5951 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
