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Ophichthidae
Grooved-jaw worm eel
Schismorhynchus labialis
Reef Fish of Easter Island
Grooved-jaw worm eel is a marine fish from Indo-Pacific. It inhabits reef habitat. Records give a maximum length of 20 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- True Eels
- Family
- Ophichthidae
- Genus
- Schismorhynchus
- Maximum length
- 20 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: Chagos Islands to the Hawaiian and Society islands. Eastern Pacific: Easter Island.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

