Galapagos snake eel

Quassiremus evionthas

Fish Reaching Seventy One Centimeters in Southeast Pacific

Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Pacific Ocean
Central America and the Caribbean
Anguilliform
Large
Tropical fish

The Galapagos snake eel (Quassiremus evionthas) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by David Starr Jordan and Charles Harvey Bollman in 1890. It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the eastern central and southeastern Pacific Ocean, including Colombia, the Gulf of California, Costa Rica, the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador, and Clarion Island in the Revillagigedo Archipelago in Mexico.

Class: Teleosts
Order: True Eels
Family: Ophichthidae
Genus: Quassiremus
Maximum length: 71 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: anguilliform
Distribution: Eastern Central Pacific: Gulf of California to Costa Rica; reported from the Galapagos Islands (Ref. 5227 ).
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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