Ophichthus echeloides is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels).

[2] It was described by Umberto D'Ancona in 1928.

[3] It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea, in the western Indian Ocean.

Males can reach a maximum total length of 51 centimetres (20 in).

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