Ophichthus zophochir Jordan & Gilbert, 1882 .

Yellow Snake Eel. To 98 cm (38.6 in) TL (Amezcua Linares 1996). Humboldt Bay, northern California (Miller and Lea 1972) to Arica, northern Chile (Sielfeld et al. 2010), including Gulf of California (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995). Benthic; depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 110 m (361 ft) (min.: Miller and Lea 1972; max.: McCosker and Rosenblatt 1998).