The Species Black List

Ophichthus apachus

thin snake-eel

The thin snake-eel (Ophichthus apachus) is known only from two specimens, the first collected near the Tres Marías Islands of Mexico and the second off the coast of western Colombia.

Status

Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List

Restriction tier

2, restricted, extent unclear

Class

Actinopterygii

Realm

Oceanic

Locality

Tres Marías Islands

As IUCN records it

Ophichthus apachus McCosker & Rosenblatt, 1998