Cirricaecula johnsoni, known commonly as the Fringelip snake eel,Common names for Cirricaecula johnsoni at www.fishbase.org. is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels).Cirricaecula johnsoni at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Leonard Peter Schultz in 1953.Schultz, L. P., E. S. Herald, E. A. Lachner, A. D. Welander and L. P. Woods, 1953 [ref. 3975] Fishes of the Marshall and Marianas islands. Vol. I. Families from Asymmetrontidae through Siganidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum No. 202, v. 1: i-xxxii + 1-685, Pls. 1-74. It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from the Rongerik Atoll, Marshall Islands, in the western central Pacific Ocean. Males can reach a maximum total length of 40 centimetres.
Etymology The fish was named in honor of Dr. Martin Johnson, who was at Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.1953, Schultz, L. P., Fishes of the Marshall and Marianas Islands, Smithsonian Bulletin 202
References
Myers, R.F., 1991. Micronesian reef fishes. Second Ed. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam. 298 p.