Dysomma anguillare, the shortbelly eel, stout moray, mustard eel or arrowtooth eel,Common names of Dysomma anguillare at www.fishbase.org. is an eel in the family Synaphobranchidae (cutthroat eels).Dysomma anguillare at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Keppel Harcourt Barnard in 1923.Barnard, K. H., 1923 (Sept.) [ref. 191] Diagnoses of new species of marine fishes from South African waters. Annals of the South African Museum v. 13 (pt 8, no. 14): 439–445. It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the western Atlantic Ocean and Indo-Western Pacific, including the United States, Venezuela, South Africa, Zanzibar, and Japan. It lives at a depth range of , and inhabits muddy sediments in coastal waters and large rivermouths. Males can reach a maximum total length of .
The shortbelly eel is of no commercial interest to fisheries.
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