Range and Identity
The scientific name also serves as the inventory page name, and Fowler’s Snake Eel is another common label. Hawaiian locality is an important part of the retrieved account. Similar elongated eels should not be assigned to this species without preserving the features used for identification.
Habitat and Behavior
Documented collections include a tidepool at night and captures at ninety-two and 155 meters. These records establish occurrence in more than one setting. They do not prove a regular daily migration between a tidepool and deep water, which would require direct behavioral evidence.
Size and Life-History Records
The compiled maximum is ninety-two centimeters total length. The sparse account does not provide a securely documented maximum mass, detailed diet or reproductive schedule. Those gaps are not filled with the feeding or spawning habits of another snake eel simply because the animals share a family.
Field Note
Keep time, depth and collection method with each observation. A few separated records can reveal habitat breadth without defining a complete movement pattern.
All Lakes With Ophichthus fowleri
Browse all lakes and reservoirs with confirmed Ophichthus fowleri records in our database, listed alphabetically.
No published lakes are currently linked to this species in our confirmed records.