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Ophidiidae
Fringed cusk-eel
Lepophidium wileyi
Fine filaments fringe nostrils
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- Anguilliform
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Anguilliform
MediumFringed cusk-eel is a marine fish found around Western Atlanic Ocean. It inhabits marine waters. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 20.9 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Cusk-eels
- Family
- Ophidiidae
- Genus
- Lepophidium
- Maximum length
- 20.9 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Western Atlanic Ocean: from the western edge of the Bahamas and Cuba along the Antillean chain to Trinidad and in the southern, eastern, and western Caribbean Sea; a collection is known from the Gulf of Mexico northwest of the Yucatan Peninsula.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
