Incan Cusk Eel

Lepophidium inca Robins & Lea 1978

Lepophidium inca (Incan Cusk Eel) is a species of ray-finned fishes in the family cusk-eels. Individuals can grow to 19.6 cm.

EOL has data for 5 attributes, including:

geographic distribution includes
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- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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Southeast Pacific: known only from the ocean off northern Peru (Piura Province);
habitat includes
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benthic
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- Definition: Living at the bottom of a body of water.
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standard length
- URI: http://purl.org/obo/owlATOL_0001659
- Definition: length of a fish measured from the tip of the snout to the posterior end of the last vertebra or to the posterior end of the midlateral portion of the hypural plate. Simply put, this measurement excludes the length of the caudal fin
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19.6 cm
water depth
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- Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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118 m

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Incan cusk-eel. View this species on GBIF