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The king snake eel [1] (Ophichthus rex) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). [2] It was described by James Erwin Böhlke and John H. Caruso in 1980. [3] It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from Florida to Texas, USA, in the northern Gulf of Mexico in the western Atlantic Ocean. It dwells at a depth range of 15 to 365 ...
Aplatophis chauliodus, the fangtooth snake-eel, also known as the tusky eel in Cuba and the United States, [1] is an eel in the family Ophichthidae. [2] It was described by James Erwin Böhlke in 1956. [3] It is a marine, tropical eel known from the western Atlantic Ocean, including the Gulf of Mexico and French Guiana.
The shrimp eel (Ophichthus gomesii) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). [1] It was described by Francis de Laporte de Castelnau in 1855. It is a common inshore species of eel usually found in the shallow Gulf of Mexico and the high-salinity bays where it inhabits muddy habitats.
Other common names include conger, spotted eel, red moray, speckled moray, white cong, white jawed moray, white-chinned moray and white-jawed moray eel. Spotted eels have a long snake-like body, white or pale yellow in general with small overlapping reddish brown to dark-brown spots. They are commonly 60 cm (24 in) in length and can grow up to ...
The Pacific snake-eel's diet consists of bony fish, shrimp and bivalves. [6] It is frequently captured as a by-catch by shrimp trawlers, but is usually discarded. [5] Due to its wide distribution, lack of known threats, and lack of observed population decline, the IUCN redlist lists the Pacific snake eel as Least Concern. [5]
Myrichthys xysturus is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). [3] It was described by David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert in 1882, originally under the genus Ophichthys. [4]
The smallfish snake eel (Quassiremus nothochir, also known as the redsaddled snake eel in Mexico [2]) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). [3] It was described by Charles Henry Gilbert in 1890 [4] as a marine, tropical eel which is known from the eastern central Pacific Ocean, including Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, the Gulf of California and Costa Rica. [5]
The death-banded snake eel [2] (Ophichthus frontalis) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). [3] It was described by Samuel Garman in 1899. [4] It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from the eastern central and southeastern Pacific Ocean, including the central Gulf of California, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Panama.