Ophichthus zophochir Jordan & Gilbert 1882
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Anguilliformes
- family
- Ophichthidae
- genus
- Ophichthus
- species
- Ophichthus zophochir
description
Yellow Snake Eel. To 98 cm (38.6 in) TL (Amezcua Linares 1996). Humboldt Bay, northern California (Miller and Lea 1972) to Arica, northern Chile (Sielfeld et al. 2010), including Gulf of California (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995). Benthic; depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 110 m (361 ft) (min.: Miller and Lea 1972; max.: McCosker and Rosenblatt 1998).