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Many-eyed snake eel

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 20, 2023
Entity authorityQ2409722 ↗
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The many-eyed snake eel (Ophichthus polyophthalmus, also known as the large-spotted snake eel, the manyeyed worm eel, the ocellated worm eel, or the yellow-spotted snake eel) is a species of eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Pieter Bleeker in 1864. It is a tropical, marine and freshwater-dwelling eel which is known from the Indo-Pacific, including East Africa and the Hawaiian Islands. It dwells at a depth of 2 to 25 metres (6.6 to 82.0 ft), and inhabits sand and rubble sediments near coral reefs. Males can reach a total length of 62.5 centimetres (24.6 in).

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This entry incorporates text from “Many-eyed snake eel” 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.