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Dalophis cephalopeltis

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ2131455 ↗
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Dalophis cephalopeltis is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels) first described by Peiter Bleeker in 1863. It is a tropical, marine eel which is known to inhabit the Eastern Atlantic near the coast of western Africa. It lives in estuaries and rivers, and forms burrows in sand or mud. Males have been recorded to reach a maximum total length of 53.5 centimetres.

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“Dalophis cephalopeltis” enters the record as species of fish. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dalophis, cephalopeltis and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dalophis cephalopeltis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.