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Angry worm eel
Skythrenchelys zabra
The angry worm eel (Skythrenchelys zabra) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Peter Henry John Castle and John E. McCosker in 1999. It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from the eastern Indian and western central Pacific Ocean, including India, Indonesia, the Straits of Malacca, northern Australia, and the Philippines. It is known to inhabit shallow, turbid estuaries, and to a lesser extent the deeper water over soft substrates. Males can reach a maximum total length of 29.6 centimetres.
The angry worm eel (Skythrenchelys zabra) has a long, thin, brown body and lacks pectoral fins. It has a large gill opening below the body. It has very small eyes, with nonuniform teeth.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 112722.