The Species Black List

Leptenchelys vermiformis

slender worm-eel

The slender worm-eel (Leptenchelys vermiformis) is known only from a single specimen collected off the western coast of Costa Rica in the 1940s.

Status

Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List

Restriction tier

5, type locality or a single collection

Class

Actinopterygii

Realm

Oceanic

Locality

not specified in the source

As IUCN records it

Leptenchelys vermiformis Myers & Wade, 1941