Dysomma anguillare

Dysomma anguillare, the shortbelly eel, stout moray, mustard eel or arrowtooth eel, is an eel in the family Synaphobranchidae. It was described by Keppel [Harcourt Barnard] in 1923. It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the western Atlantic Ocean and Indo-Western Pacific, including the United States, Venezuela, South Africa, Zanzibar, and Japan. It lives at a depth range of, and inhabits muddy sediments in coastal waters and large rivermouths. Males can reach a maximum total length of.
The shortbelly eel is of no commercial interest to fisheries.