Longtailed shortfaced eel

Pythonichthys macrurus

Eighty Centimeters Eel from the Atlantic Ocean

Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Atlantic Ocean
Africa
Anguilliform
Large
Tropical fish

The longtailed shortfaced eel (Pythonichthys macrurus) is an eel in the family Heterenchelyidae (mud eels). It was described by Charles Tate Regan in 1912, originally under the genus Heterenchelys. It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from coastal waters ranging from Sierra Leone to Angola, in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.

Class: Teleosts
Order: True Eels
Family: Heterenchelyidae
Genus: Pythonichthys
Water type: Marine
Body shape: anguilliform