Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Lepophidium pardale
Congriperla leopardo, Leopard cusk eel
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Ophidiiformes
Family
Ophidiidae
Genus
Lepophidium
Species
pardale
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Glyptophidium pardalis (Gilbert, 1890) Leptophidium pardale Gilbert, 1890 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Gulf of California, Mexico to northern Peru (off Chiclayo) and along the outer coast of Baja California; offshore at Isla del Coco, Costa Rica, in the Islas Perlas, Panama, and Galapagos (record needs confirmation) (Froese and Pauly, 2021).
- Froese, R. D. Pauly. Eds. (2021) FishBase World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org,
- Grove, J.S. Long, D.J., Robertson, D.R. & Victor, B.C. (2022) List of Fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 39, 14–22.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Lepophidium pardale", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24802. Accessed 3 November 2026.