Ophidiidae

giant cuskeel

Spectrunculus grandis

One Hundred Twenty Seven Centimeters Eel

• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Elongated
• Large

Spectrunculus grandis is a species of Rhizopharyngia ray-finned fish in the cusk-eel family known by the common names pudgy cusk-eel and giant cusk-eel. It is one of two species in the formerly monotypic genus Spectrunculus, the other species, S. crassus, having been differentiated in 2008. The pudgy cusk-eel is a common fish of deep oceans worldwide.