Longtailed shortfaced eel
The longtailed shortfaced eel is an eel in the family Heterenchelyidae. It was described by Charles [Tate Regan] in 1912, originally under the genus Heterenchelys. It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from coastal waters ranging from Sierra Leone to Angola, in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Males can reach a maximum total length of 80 centimetres.