Echiophis punctifer (Kaup 1860)

Smith-Vaniz, William F. & Jelks, Howard L., 2014, Marine and inland fishes of St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands: an annotated checklist, Zootaxa 3803 (1), pp. 1-120 : 25

* Echiophis punctifer (Kaup 1860) — Stippled Spoon-nose Eel

Justification: ANSP 150012 (1, 874 mm TL), Sandy Point, Aug. 1981 [identified by J. McCosker]. Distribution: McCosker et al. (1989) WA ( FL, GOM, GA, WC, nSA, sSA), EA .

Remarks: McCosker et al. (1989:364) listed the locality of the above specimen only as "the Virgin Islands." Although this stout ophichthid has a wide but spotty Caribbean distribution, this is the only known record of the eel from St. Croix or elsewhere in the Virgin Islands.