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Ophichthidae
Narrow worm eel
Scolecenchelys macroptera
Twenty Seven Point Five Centimeters Eel of Indo Pacific
Narrow worm eel is a marine fish of Indo-Pacific. The species occupies coastal waters. Records give a maximum length of 27.5 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- True Eels
- Family
- Ophichthidae
- Genus
- Scolecenchelys
- Maximum length
- 27.5 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: East Africa to the Society Islands, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to the southern Great Barrier Reef.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

