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Ophichthus rotundus
Ophichthus rotundus is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Chung-Lyul Lee and Hirotoshi Asano in 1997. It is a marine, temperate water-dwelling eel which is known from Korea, in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. Males can reach a maximum total length of 79.3 centimeters (31.2 in).
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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 618567.