The Indo-Pacific slender worm-eel (Scolecenchelys gymnota, also known as the Slender worm eel[2]) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels).

[4] It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the Indo-Pacific, including the Red Sea, East Africa, the Line Islands, the Society Islands, Johnston Island, Japan, Rapa Iti, Micronesia, and the southern Great Barrier Reef.

It forms burrows in inshore sediments of loose gravel and sand.

Males can reach a maximum total length of 38 centimetres (15 in).

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