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mimic cusk-eel (Ophidion imitator)
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mimic cusk-eel (Ophidion imitator) specimen
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Ophidiidae

mimic cusk-eel

Ophidion imitator

Dark blotches on head and back

  • Tropical
  • Regional distribution
  • Marine fish
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Central America and the Caribbean
  • North America
  • Elongated
  • Medium
  • Tropical fish

mimic cusk-eel is known around Eastern Central Pacific as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and records give a maximum length of 19.1 cm.

Maximum length
19.1 cm
Water
Marine
Body shape
elongated
Distribution
Eastern Central Pacific: off the tip of Baja California and Sinaloa, Mexico to the Gulf of Panama.
Conservation status
LCLeast Concern

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