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Ophidiidae
barred cusk-eel
Lepophidium staurophor
Four to five dark body bands
- Restricted distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- Anguilliform
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
Restricted distribution
Marine fish
Anguilliform
Mediumbarred cusk-eel is a marine fish from Western Atlantic. It inhabits marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 27.3 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Cusk-eels
- Family
- Ophidiidae
- Genus
- Lepophidium
- Maximum length
- 27.3 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: apparently restricted to the deep bank area east and northeast of Nicaragua and Honduras in the western Caribbean Sea and north of the Yucatan Peninsula in the southern Gulf of Mexico; not in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Water
Conservation status
