Gnathophis tritos is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).Gnathophis tritos at www.fishbase.org. It was described by David G. Smith and Robert H. Kanazawa in 1977.Smith, D. G. and R. H. Kanazawa, 1977 [ref. 4036] Eight new species and a new genus of congrid eels from the western north Atlantic with redescriptions of Ariosoma analis, Hildebrandia guppyi, and Rhechias vicinalis. Bulletin of Marine Science v. 27 (no. 3): 530-543. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from the Straits of Florida, in the western central Atlantic Ocean. It dwells at a depth range of 458–567 meters.
Gnathophis tritos was given its species epithet due to its being the third species in its genus discovered in the western Atlantic.
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