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Ophichthus cruentifer (Snake eel; Margined snake eel)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The margined snake eel, Ophichthus cruentifer, is a snake eel in the genus Ophichthus. It is found in the coastal waters of the western North Atlantic. The most striking feature of this fish and one that distinguishes it from all other Gulf of Maine eels is that the tip of its tail is hard and pointed. Other distinctive features are that it is only about one thirty-seventh to one thirty-eighth as deep as it is long; that its dorsal fin originates only a short distance behind the tips of the pectoral fins when these are laid back; that its anal fin originates far behind its dorsal fin; that its snout is bluntly pointed; and that its mouth gapes rearward considerably beyond its eyes (but not so far back as in the long-nosed eel). The dorsal and anal fins end a little in front of the tip of t
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Prey / Diet

Crangon septemspinosa (sevenspine bay shrimp)[1]
Leptocheirus pinguis[1]
Scoletoma tenuis[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Carcharhinus plumbeus (Thickskin shark)[1]
Leucoraja garmani (Freckled skate)[1]
Lophius americanus (Monkfish)[2]
Menticirrhus saxatilis (Northern kingfish)[1]
Pomatomus saltatrix (Tailor run)[3]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Food of Northwest Atlantic Fishes and Two Common Species of Squid, Ray E. Bowman, Charles E. Stillwell, William L. Michaels, and Marvin D. Grosslein, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-155 (2000)
2Food and Ontogenetic Shifts in Feeding of the Goosefish, Lophius Americanus, Michael P. Armstrong, John A. Musick, and James A. Colvocoresses, J. Northw. Atl. Fish. Sci., Vol. 18: 99–103
3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0