WoRMS taxon details
Ophichthus macrochir (Bleeker, 1853)
271963 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:271963)
accepted
Species
Centrurophis macrochir (Bleeker, 1853) · unaccepted
Ophisurus macrochir Bleeker, 1852 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Ophisurus macrochir Bleeker, 1852) Bleeker, P. (1852). Bijdrage tot de kennis der Muraenoïden en Symbranchoïden van den Indischen Archipel. <em>Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen.</em> v. 25 (art. 5): 1-62+ 63-76. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Ophichthus macrochir (Bleeker, 1853). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=271963 on 2026-09-15
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Ophisurus macrochir Bleeker, 1852) Bleeker, P. (1852). Bijdrage tot de kennis der Muraenoïden en Symbranchoïden van den Indischen Archipel. <em>Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen.</em> v. 25 (art. 5): 1-62+ 63-76. [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Vo, Q. V.; Hibino, Y.; Ho, H.-C.; Le, T. T. T.; Seah, Y. G. (2025). Two new snake eels (Anguilliformes, Ophichthidae, Ophichthus) from Viet Nam, with redescriptions of O. macrochir (Bleeker) and O. rutidoderma (Bleeker). <em>ZooKeys.</em> 1231: 311-329., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1231.137323 [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Centrurophis macrochir (Bleeker, 1853))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Ophisurus macrochir Bleeker, 1852)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ophichthus macrochir)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Ophisurus macrochir Bleeker, 1852)
To FishBase (from synonym Centrurophis macrochir (Bleeker, 1853))
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Ophisurus macrochir Bleeker, 1852)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Centrurophis macrochir (Bleeker, 1853))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Ophisurus macrochir Bleeker, 1852)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ophichthus macrochir)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Ophisurus macrochir Bleeker, 1852)
To FishBase (from synonym Centrurophis macrochir (Bleeker, 1853))
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Ophisurus macrochir Bleeker, 1852)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
