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Ophichthidae
flappy snake-eel
Phyllophichthus xenodontus
Forty Two Centimeters Eel of Australian Waters
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Marine fish
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Oceania
- Southeast Asia
- Anguilliform
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Marine fish
Africa
Anguilliform
Mediumflappy snake-eel is known around Indo-Pacific as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and records give a maximum length of 42 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- True Eels
- Family
- Ophichthidae
- Genus
- Phyllophichthus
- Maximum length
- 42 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: East Africa to Hawaii and the Society Islands; north to Ryukyu Islands; south to Australia; East Indies, from Christmas Island and Indonesia (Flores and Molucca Is.).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
