Ravenous Cusk

Ophidion genyopus

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe
• IUCN status: LC

A bottom dwelling cusk eel of the continental shelf, it stays buried or close to soft sediment in coastal water where it is rarely seen. It spawns oval eggs that float in a gelatinous mass, and like its relatives it has a tapering, eel shaped tail.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Chordata › Teleostei › Ophidiiformes › Ophidiidae › Ophidion

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 272822.