Ophichthidae

rice-paddy eel

Pisodonophis boro

One Hundred Centimeters Eel of Indo West Pacific

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Indian Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Africa
• Oceania
• South Asia
• Southeast Asia
• Anguilliform
• Large
• Tropical fish

The rice-paddy eel (Pisodonophis boro; also known commonly as the Bengal's snake-eel, the estuary snake eel, or the snake eel) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm-snake eels). It was described by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton in 1822, originally in the genus Ophisurus. It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from the Indo-West Pacific, including Somalia, Tanzania, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Polynesia, Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kenya, Madagascar, the Philippines, Malaysia, Mozambique, Seychelles, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, China, Thailand, Vietnam, and southern Yemen.