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Ophichthus brasiliensis is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Johann Jakob Kaup in 1856, originally under the genus Centrurophis. It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from Brazil, in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean (from which its species epithet is derived).
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