Benthenchelys pacificus is an eel in the family Ophichthidae,[2] described by Peter Henry John Castle in 1972, originally as a subspecies of Benthenchelys cartieri.

[3] It is a marine, deep-water-dwelling eel known only from its type locality in the eastern central Pacific Ocean.

It inhabits the pelagic zone.

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