The slender shortfaced eelCommon names for Panturichthys longus at www.fishbase.org. (Panturichthys longus) is an eel in the family Heterenchelyidae (mud eels).Panturichthys longus at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Ernst Ehrenbaum in 1915, originally under the genus Heterenchelys.Ehrenbaum, E., 1915 [ref. 15784] Über Küstenfische von Westafrika, besonders von Kamerun. 1-85. It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from Benin to Angola in the Gulf of Guinea, in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Males can reach a maximum total length of 149 centimetres.
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