The flatnose xenocongrid eel, flat-nosed xenocongrid eel, or flat-nosed conger eel,Common names for ''Chilorhinus platyrhynchus''
at www.fishbase.org. ''Chilorhinus platyrhynchus'', is an

eel Eels are ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes (), which consists of eight suborders, 20 families, 164 genera, and about 1000 species. Eels undergo considerable development from the early larval stage to the eventual adult stage ...

in the family

Chlopsidae The Chlopsidae, or false morays, are a family of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Anguilliformes, the eels. The eels in this family arefound in coral reefs worldwide. As their name suggests, they somewhat resemble moray eels in ...

.''Chilorhinus platyrhynchus''
at www.fishbase.org. It was described by

John Roxborough Norman John Roxborough Norman (1898, Wandsworth, London – 26 May 1944, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire) was an English ichthyologist. He started as a clerk in a bank. His lifetime affliction with rheumatic fever began during his military service during the ...

in 1922, originally under the genus '' Brachyconger''.Norman, J. R., 1922 (1 Aug.) ef. 3210''Two new fishes from New Britain and Japan.'' Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 9) v. 10 (no. 56): 217-218. It is a

tropical The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the equator, where the sun may shine directly overhead. This contrasts with the temperate or polar regions of Earth, where the Sun can never be directly overhead. This is because of Earth's ax ...

marine eel which is known from the

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is ...

. It typically dwells at depths from 5 to 25 m, and leads a

benthic The benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean, lake, or stream, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers. The name comes from the Ancient Greek word (), meaning "the depths". ...

lifestyle. Males can reach a maximum

standard length Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of fish anatomy, their anatomies, for data used in many areas of ichthyology, including Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy and fishery biology. Overall length Standard length (SL) is ...

of 17.8 cm.

References

Chlopsidae Taxa named by John Roxborough Norman Fish described in 1922 {{Anguilliformes-stub