The Species Black List
Herpetoichthys regius
ornate snake-eel
The ornate snake-eel (Herpetoichthys regius) is only known from a few localities in the Tropical Atlantic (coastal Mauritania, Saint Helena, Ascension Island, and Saint Paul's Rocks).
- Status
- Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List
- Restriction tier
- 2, restricted, extent unclear
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Realm
- Oceanic
- Locality
- The Tropical Atlantic Region
- As IUCN records it
- Herpetoichthys regius (Richardson, 1848)