Species: Ophichthus arneutes, Submarine snake-eel

Ophichthus arneutes McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1998

Submarine snake-eel

Body moderately elongate; tail 60% of TL; head 13% of TL; head and gill pouch bulbous; snout overhanging, blunt, rounded when viewed from above; eye large (13% head), over rear half of mouth; front nostrils tubular, extend sideways at ~450; rear nostril a hole above top lip, covered by a flap that extends to or below edge of mouth; head without barbels; mouth large; teeth small, numerous, conical; 1 row  of 5 teeth on roof of mouth (which ends under rear nostril) and 42 teeth side of lower jaw, 2 rows at front of top jaw, 25 teeth on outer row, 4 teeth on inner row; gill opening angled down and back, semicircular; dorsal fin origin well behind pectoral tips; tip of tail a blunt, finless point; pectoral fins short, pointed, with restricted bases - opposite and above upper half of gill opening, tips ~1 fin length before dorsal fin origin; lateral line not abruptly arched at rear of head; head pores small, but conspicuous.