Real photoREAL PHOTO
Nemichthyidae
slender snipe eel
Nemichthys scolopaceus
Eel beneath the Mediterranean Sea
- Cross-climate
- Temperate
- Tropical
- Northern Hemisphere
- Globally widespread
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- East Asia
- Europe
- North America
- South America
- Anguilliform
- Large
Cross-climate
Marine fish
Africa
Anguilliform
Largeslender snipe eel is known from Worldwide in tropical and temperate seas as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- True Eels
- Family
- Nemichthyidae
- Genus
- Nemichthys
- Maximum length
- 130 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Worldwide in tropical and temperate seas. Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada and northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil. Eastern Atlantic: Spain to South Africa, including western Mediterranean (Ref. 3247 ); reported from Iceland (Ref. 12462 ). Regularly found in the Skagerrak (Ref. 35387 ). Northwest Pacific: Japan (Ref. 6885 ) and Arafura Sea (Ref. 9819 ). Eastern Pacific: Alaska (Ref. 6885 ) to Chile (Ref. 9068 ), including the Gulf of California (Ref. 32364 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
