''Ophichthus arneutes'' is an

eel Eels are ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes (), which consists of eight suborders, 19 families, 111 genera, and about 800 species. Eels undergo considerable development from the early larval stage to the eventual adult stage ...

in the family Ophichthidae.''Ophichthus arneutes''
at www.fishbase.org. It was described by

John E. McCosker John Edward McCosker is an American ichthyologist and as has been part of expeditions to many countries such as Antarctic, Australia, and the Galapagos. After extensive study and ten expeditions he is one of the foremost experts on the Galapag ...

and

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 ...

in 1998.McCosker, J. E. and R. H. Rosenblatt, 1998 (18 Dec.) ef. 23645''A revision of the eastern Pacific snake-eel genus Ophichthus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) with the description of six new species.'' Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences v. 50 (no. 19): 397-432. It is a

marine Marine is an adjective meaning of or pertaining to the sea or ocean. Marine or marines may refer to: Ocean * Maritime (disambiguation) * Marine art * Marine biology * Marine debris * Marine habitats * Marine life * Marine pollution Military * ...

, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from the Galapagos Islands, in the southeastern

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

. It dwells at a depth range of . Males can reach a maximum

total length Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies. These data are used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fisheries biology. Overall length * Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish ...

of . The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

''arneutes'' means "diver" in Greek, and refers simultaneously to the depth at which the species is found, and to the method of capture.

References

Taxa named by John E. McCosker Taxa named by Richard Heinrich Rosenblatt Fish described in 1998 arneutes Fish of the Pacific Ocean {{Ophichthidae-stub