Species: Hyphalophis devius, Flabby snake eel, Flabby snake-eel
tail 60% TL, tip hard & finless
eye over mid-mouth
teeth minute, conical, top jaw - 4 rows
Hyphalophis devius McCosker & Bohlke, 1982
Flabby snake-eel
Body elongate (depth 3% of TL), cylindrical, compressed at rear; skin loose and flabby; tail 60% of TL; snout bluntly rounded; eye well developed, over center of mouth; front nostril a tube, rear nostril at edge of lip, covered by a flap; mouth opens at front; lips without barbels; teeth minute, conical, 4 rows on top jaw, 1 row on vomer and lower jaw; gill openings a crescent; dorsal fin origin well behind pectorals; pectorals well developed, base restricted to opposite top half of gill opening; tip of tail a finless point; lateral line strongly arched at rear of head, those on each side abutting but not joined across top.
Uniform pale
Reaches 29 cm.
Lives on soft bottoms.
Depth range 293-366 m
Known from a single specimen collected off Grenada.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Offshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Mud
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Soft bottom only
- FishBase Habitat
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- Bathydemersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Bony fishes
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species.
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Caribbean endemic
- All species..
- Island (s)
- Island (s) only
- GC endemic
- Antilles endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Not evaluated / Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 29
- Depth Range Min
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- 293
- Depth Range Max
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- 366
