Ophichthidae

Ophichthus tsuchidae

Ophichthus tsuchidae

Ophichthid Fish of Japanese Waters

• Tropical
• Northern Hemisphere
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• East Asia
• Anguilliform
• Medium
• Tropical fish

Ophichthus tsuchidae is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by David Starr Jordan and John Otterbein Snyder in 1901. It is a marine, subtropical eel which is known from Japan, in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.