Animalia > Chordata > Anguilliformes > Ophichthidae > Ophichthus > Ophichthus gomesii

Ophichthus gomesii (Gomes's snake eel; Pallid snake eel; Sea eel; Sea serpent; Shrimp Eel; Snake eel; Whipsnake eel; White snake eel)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The shrimp eel (Ophichthus gomesii) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Francis de Laporte de Castelnau in 1855. It is a common inshore species of eel usually found in the shallow Gulf of Mexico and the high-salinity bays where it inhabits muddy habitats.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve 40530 United States  
Everglades and Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve   Florida, United States  
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary IV 2387149 Florida, United States

Predators

Menticirrhus americanus (Woundhead)[1]
Mycteroperca microlepis (Velvet rockfish)[2]
Sciaenops ocellatus (Spotted bass)[3]
Tursiops truncatus (Bottlenosed Dolphin)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Diplomonorchis sphaerovarium[4]
Heliconema brooksi[4]

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1Variação sazonal e mudanças ontogênicas na dieta de Menticirrhus americanus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Teleostei, Sciaenidae) na baía de Ubatuba-Enseada, Santa Catarina, Brasil, CAROLINA F. HALUCH, MATHEUS O. FREITAS, MARCO F. M. CORRÊA, VINÍCIUS ABILHOA, Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences (2009), 4(3): 347-356
♦ 2Jorrit 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.
♦ 3Feeding Habits of Red Drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) in Galveston Bay, Texas: Seasonal Diet Variation and Predator-Prey Size Relationships, FREDERICK S. SCHARF & KURTIS K. SCHLICHT, Estuaries Vol. 23, No. 1, p. 128–139 February 2000
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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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