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Ophichthidae
saddled snake-eel
Leiuranus semicinctus
Sixty Six Centimeters Eel of the Hawaiian Islands
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- East Asia
- Oceania
- Anguilliform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Atlantic Ocean
Africa
Anguilliform
Largesaddled snake-eel is a fish from Indo-Pacific. Records give a maximum length of 66 cm. Its body is an eel-like body.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- True Eels
- Family
- Ophichthidae
- Genus
- Leiuranus
- Maximum length
- 66 cm
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: East Africa to the Hawaiian, Marquesan, and Mangaréva islands, north to southern Japan, south to northern New South Wales, Australia. Also recorded from Southeast Atlantic: South Africa (Ref. 3972 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
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