Ophidion zavalai is a species of cusk-eel from the Ophidiidae family.

[1][2] It was discovered through taxonomic revisions of the band cusk-eel (Ophidion holbrookii) on the coast of Laje da Conceição Island [ceb], where its type locality is given.

[3][4] It occurs on soft bottoms off the eastern to southeastern coast of Brazil.

[3] Ophidion zavalai is an elongate fish with moderately compressed body and tapering tail.

[3] The fish is named in honor of Peruvian-born Brazilian ichthyologist Luis Alberto Zavala-Camin (1938-2023), a researcher at the Instituto de Pesca, in São Paulo, Brazil, and a professor at the Universidade Santa Cecília in Santos, Brazil, for his contribution to the knowledge of marine fishes in Brazil.