Ophichthus brevicaudatus is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels).Ophichthus brevicaudatus at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Chu Yuan-Ting, Wu Han-Lin and Jin Xin-Bo in 1981.Chu, Y.-T., H.-L. Wu and X.-B. Jin, 1981 (Mar.) [ref. 21250] Four new species of the families Ophichthyidae and Neenchelidae. Journal of Fisheries of China v. 5 (no. 1): 21-27. It is a marine, subtropical eel which is known from its type locality in the Taiwan Strait, in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
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