Ophichthidae

Evermann's snake eel

Ophichthus lithinus

Eel beneath Taiwanese Waters

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• East Asia
• Oceania
• South Asia
• Southeast Asia
• Anguilliform
• Large
• Tropical fish

The Evermann's snake eel (Ophichthus lithinus) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson in 1908. It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the western Pacific Ocean.