Heterenchelyidae

Pacific mud eel

Pythonichthys asodes

Forty Seven Point Two Centimeters Eel of Mexican Waters

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• Central America and the Caribbean
• North America
• Anguilliform
• Medium
• Tropical fish

The Pacific mud eel (Pythonichthys asodes) is an eel in the family Heterenchelyidae (mud eels). It was described by Richard Heinrich Rosenblatt and Ira Rubinoff in 1972. It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from the eastern central Pacific Ocean, including Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, and Nicaragua.