Species: Ophichthus remiger, Punctuated snake-eel, White-spotted snake-eel


Ophichthus remiger (Valenciennes, 1842)
Punctuated snake-eel, White-spotted snake-eel
Relatively robust; tail 56-62% of TL; head 14-15% of TL; eye large, 9-11% of head length about over middle of mouth; front nostril tubular under snout; rear nostril a tube above lip, ending in a flap, extending down but not reaching mouth; snout overhanging; mouth large; teeth conical, 1 row on front of roof of mouth, 2 rows on sides of jaws; gill opening vertical, semicircular; dorsal fin origin before end of pectoral fin; tip of tail a blunt, finless point; pectorals elongate, pointed, ~ 25-33% of head length, with restricted bases - opposite and above upper half of gill opening; lateral line not abruptly arched at rear of head.
Grey to brown above, paler below; lateral line with a row of small, well separated white spots from above pectoral onto tail; front membrane of gill opening dark; dorsal and anal fins dark; pectoral fin dark, particularly the top margin and inner surface; anal colorless; juveniles paler and with paler fins.
Size: 83 cm.
Habitat: sand bottoms.
Depth: 15-280 m.
Nicaragua to Chile.

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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Mud
- Soft bottom only
- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- No Data
- Bony fishes
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- Pelagic
- No data
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- TEP non-endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent + Island (s)
- Peruvian province, primarily
- Temperate Eastern Pacific, primarily
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic
- Island (s)
- Continent
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- South Temperate (Peruvian Province )
- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 83
- Depth Range Min
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- 15
- Depth Range Max
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- 280