Ophichthus arneutes

Ophichthus arneutes is an eel in the family Ophichthidae. It was described by John E. McCosker and Richard Heinrich Rosenblatt in 1998. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from the Galapagos Islands, in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. It dwells at a depth range of. Males can reach a maximum total length of.
The specific epithet arneutes means "diver" in Greek, and refers simultaneously to the depth at which the species is found, and to the method of capture.