The
highfin snake eel (
Ophichthus altipennis, also known as the
blackfin snake eel or the
black-finned snake eel) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae. It was described by Johann Jakob Kaup in 1856, originally under the genus
Microdonophis. It is a marine, tropical eel known from the eastern Indian Ocean and northwestern and western central Pacific Ocean, including Australia, French Polynesia, Indonesia, Japan, the Marshall Islands, Malaysia, the Philippines, an
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