Ophichthus triserialis (Kaup 1856)
- 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 triserialis
description
Pacific Snake Eel. To 121.5 cm (47.8 in) TL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Off Lincoln City (44 ° 58.6 ’ N, 124 ° 09 ’ W), Oregon (Pickens et al. 2018) to Peru, including Gulf of California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 155 m (508 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: McCosker and Rosenblatt 1998). The O. triserialis mentioned as living around the Islas Galápagos in Eschmeyer and Herald (1983) is another, island endemic, species (Love et al. 2005).
Name
- Homonyms
- Ophichthus triserialis (Kaup 1856)