[3] It was described by Leonard Peter Schultz in 1953.

[4] It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from the Rongerik Atoll, Marshall Islands, in the western central Pacific Ocean.

Males can reach a maximum total length of 40 centimetres.

[3] The fish was named in honor of Dr. Martin Johnson, who was at Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.

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