[2] It was described by David G. Smith and Emma Stanislavovna Karmovskaya in 2003.

[3] It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from the Philippines (from which its species epithet is derived), in the western central Pacific Ocean.

It dwells at a depth range of 186–230 metres.

Females can reach a total length of 19 centimetres.

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