Scolecenchelys cookei is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels).Scolecenchelys cookei at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Henry Weed Fowler in 1928, originally under the genus Muraenichthys.Fowler, H. W., 1928 [ref. 5596] The fishes of Oceania. Memoirs of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. No. 10: i-iii + 1-540, Pls. 1-49. It is a marine, temperate water-dwelling eel which is known from Hawaii, in the eastern central Pacific Ocean. It dwells at a depth range of , and inhabits pockets of sand in coral reefs. Males can reach a maximum total length of .
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