''Ophichthus alleni'' 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
Ophichthidae
Ophichthidae is a family (biology), family of fish in the order (biology), order Anguilliformes, commonly known as the snake eels. The term "Ophichthidae" comes from Greek language, Greek ''ophis'' ("serpent") and ''ichthys'' ("fish"). Snake eels ...
.
[''Ophichthus alleni''](_blank)
at www.fishbase.org. It was described by
John E. McCosker in 2010.
[McCosker, J. E., 2010 (14 June) ef. 30840''Deepwater Indo-Pacific species of the snake-eel genus Ophichthus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), with the description of nine new species.'' Zootaxa No. 2505: 1-39.] It is a
marine, deep water-dwelling eel known from
Australia
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, in the western
Pacific Ocean
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. It dwells at a depth range of . Females can reach a maximum
total length
Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies, for data used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fishery biology.
Overall length
Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish measured f ...
of .
Etymology
The
species epithet Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany) ...
''alleni'' refers to
Gerald R. Allen.
References
Taxa named by John E. McCosker
Fish described in 2010
alleni
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