The Snack eel (''Ethadophis merenda'') is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels).''Ethadophis merenda''
at www.fishbase.org. It was described by

Richard Heinrich Rosenblatt Richard Heinrich Rosenblatt (December 21, 1930 – October 14, 2014) was an American ichthyologogist. Rosenblatt was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1930, and died in San Diego, California in 2014. Rosenblatt was awarded the Frederick H. Sto ...

and

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in 1970.Rosenblatt, R. H. and J. E. McCosker, 1970 ef. 3809''A key to the genera of the ophichthid eels, with descriptions of two new genera and three new species from the eastern Pacific.'' Pacific Science v. 24 (no. 4): 494-505. It is a

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eel which is known from a single specimen discovered in Mexico, in the eastern central Pacific Ocean. From the holotype, which was found in the stomach of a

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, males are known to reach a total length of . Due to the lack of multiple known specimens, and thereby an inability to acquire data on the ecology, habitat or threats faced by the species, the IUCN redlist currently lists the Snack eel as Data Deficient.''Ethadophis merenda''
at the IUCN redlist.

References

Ophichthidae Fish described in 1970 {{Ophichthidae-stub