Blotched Snake Eel
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
By day it burrows into the sand with just its head out, and at night it swims around looking for food.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Blotched Snake Eel
- Scientific name
- Ophichthus erabo
- Japanese name
- モンガラドオシ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Family
- Ophichthidae
- Genus
- Ophichthus
Where the name “Blotched Snake Eel” comes from
The genus name Ophichthus combines the Greek words for snake and fish.
FishBaseBy day it burrows into the sand with just its head out, and at night it swims around looking for food.
It lives from Hachijojima and the seas south of Chiba in Japan to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Blotched Snake Eel lives
It feeds on other animals.
FishBaseBasic data
- Active
- At night (nocturnal)
- Range
- East China Sea, Indo-Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Blotched Snake Eel has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- モンガラドオシ
- 简体中文
- 斑纹蛇鳗
- 繁體中文
- 斑紋蛇鰻
- 한국어
- 물방울바다뱀장어
- Español
- Tieso pintado
- Português (Brasil)
- Falsa-moréia-insular
- العربية
- أنقليس ثعباني ملطخ
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — モンガラドオシChecked: 2026-11-04
- FishBase — Ophichthus erabo, Blotched snake-eelChecked: 2026-11-09
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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