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Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) > Anguilliformes (Eels and morays) > Ophichthidae (Snake eels) > Ophichthinae
Etymology: Lamnostoma: Greek, lamna, -es = a shark + Greek, stoma = mouth (Ref. 45335).

Environment / Climate / Range Ecology

Marine; freshwater; brackish; demersal. Tropical, preferred ?

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Indo-Pacific: Sri Lanka and the East Indies. Reported from the Marquesas (Ref. 12792).

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 32.5 cm male/unsexed; (Ref. 1602)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Anal spines: 0. Body elongate, more or less cylindrical, slightly compressed, with a hard tail tip; sharply conical head; large mouth, reaching well behind eyes; teeth on jaws small, sharp and recurved; vomerine teeth larger; gill-openings strongly oblique, small, beneath the throat with an extra fold of skin alongside; very low dorsal and anal fins; dorsal fin origin about 1/4 head-length behind gill-openings (Ref. 4832). Color in life yellowish dusted with brown; upper surface of head and nape consisting of double row of yellow round spots, vertex with a yellow transverse streak; lateral line pores lighter than surrounding skin (Ref. 4832).

Inhabits estuaries, and probably inshore areas (Ref. 4832).

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Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator : McCosker, John | Collaborators

Talwar, P.K. and A.G. Jhingran, 1991. Inland fishes of India and adjacent countries. vol 1. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. 541 p. (Ref. 4832)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 115185)

Least Concern (LC)

CITES (Ref. 94142)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Fisheries: of no interest

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Lamnostoma polyophthalmum (Bleeker, 1853)