Ilyophis nigeli is an eel in the family Synaphobranchidae (cutthroat eels).Ilyophis nigeli at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Yuri Nikolaevich Shcherbachev and Kenneth J. Sulak in 1997.Sulak, K. J. and Yu. N. Shcherbachev, 1997 [ref. 22986] Zoogeography and systematics of six deep-living genera of synaphobranchid eels, with a key to taxa and description of two new species of Ilyophis. Bulletin of Marine Science v. 60 (no. 3): 1158-1194. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from Japan, in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. It is known to dwell at a depth range of . Males can reach a maximum total length of .
Etymology The species epithet "nigeli" was given in honour of Nigel R. Merrett, credited with making "substantial contributions" to the knowledge of the synaphobranchid eels.
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