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Serpent eel
| Serpent eel | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Ophichthidae |
| Genus: | Ophisurus |
| Species: | O. serpens
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| Binomial name | |
| Ophisurus serpens | |
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The serpent eel or sand snake-eel (Ophisurus serpens) is an eel found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, western Mediterranean Sea, western Indian Ocean, western Pacific Ocean and the north-east and west coast of North Island in New Zealand. It is an elongated, slender fish with a length of up to 250 centimetres. It spends the day with its body immersed in the sediment, emerging into the open water at night.
- ^ Tighe, K. (2015). "Ophisurus serpens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T194986A2371964. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T194986A2371964.en. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- ^ a b Bailly, Nicolas (2020). "Ophisurus serpens (Linnaeus, 1758)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
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