Species: Chlopsis bicolor, Bicolor Eel, Bicolor False Moray

Chlopsis bicolor Rafinesque, 1810

Bicolor Eel, Bicolor False Moray

Moderately elongate, slightly compressed; snout bluntly pointed; large eyes; front nostril tubular, points downward; rear nostril opens on outside of top lip under front edge of eye, but concealed by a flap; mouth moderately large, extends just behind eye; no flange on either lip; jaw teeth small, slender, conical, a round patch at front of top jaws; upper and lower jaw teeth in 2 rows, inner row larger; 2 series of teeth on center of roof of mouth that begin a little behind the patch at front of top jaws, those rows diverge in center and converge to rear; gill opening small, oval, lateral; dorsal origin over or slightly behind gill opening; pectoral fins absent; dorsal and anal fins well developed, continuous with tail fin, 1 lateral line pore on upper gill area, 5-6 along lower jaw.

Dark brown above and white below, with an abrupt separation of those colors in a line from base of front nostril, under eye to level of gill opening, along lower 1/3 of body then descends and present only as a narrow band along the tail and ends before the tail fin.

Reaches 23.5 cm.

Rock and rubble.

Depth range: 60-365 m.

Both sides of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean; N Carolina to Brazil.