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Ophichthidae
Redfin worm-eel
Scolecenchelys laticaudata
Thirty Five Centimeters Eel of Indo West Pacific
Redfin worm-eel is known around Indo-West Pacific as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and the species reaches a recorded maximum of 35 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- True Eels
- Family
- Ophichthidae
- Genus
- Scolecenchelys
- Maximum length
- 35 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Indo-West Pacific: from Mozambique to Red Sea, north to Kikai-jima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, east to Cook Islands.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

