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Ophidiidae
Natal cusk-eel
Ophidion smithi
Eel beneath the Red Sea
Natal cusk-eel is a marine fish of Indian Ocean. The species occupies marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 14 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Cusk-eels
- Family
- Ophidiidae
- Genus
- Ophidion
- Maximum length
- 14 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Indian Ocean: Red Sea to Natal (South Africa), Seychelles and northwestern coast of Australia.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

