The Species Black List

Ophichthus leonensis

Sierra Leone snake-eel

The Sierra Leone snake-eel (Ophichthus leonensis) is deepwater species known only from a single specimen found in the stomach of a fish taken off Sierra Leone in 1975.

Status

Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List

Restriction tier

5, type locality or a single collection

Class

Actinopterygii

Realm

Oceanic

Locality

The Tropical Atlantic Region

As IUCN records it

Ophichthus leonensis Blache, 1975