Cirrhimuraena calamus, known commonly as the fringed-lipped snake-eel or the fringelip snake eel,Common names for Cirrhimuraena calamus at www.fishbase.org. is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels).Cirrhimuraena calamus at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Albert Günther in 1870.Günther, A., 1870 (25 June) [ref. 1995] Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549 It is a marine, temperate water-dwelling eel which is endemic to western Australia, in the eastern Indian Ocean. It forms burrows in the soft bottoms of inshore waters.
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