Cirricaecula johnsoni

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| status= LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=McCosker, J.|author-link=John E. McCosker |author2=Smith, D.G. |name-list-style=& |author3=Tighe, K. |year=2022 |title=Cirricaecula johnsoni |page=e.T199061A2554816 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T199061A2554816.en |access-date=12 November 2024}}

| taxon = Cirricaecula johnsoni

| authority = L. P. Schultz, 1953

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Cirricaecula johnsoni, known commonly as the Fringelip snake eel,[http://www.fishbase.org/comnames/CommonNamesList.php?ID=17393&GenusName=Cirricaecula&SpeciesName=johnsoni&StockCode=15580 Common names for Cirricaecula johnsoni] at www.fishbase.org. is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels).[http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Cirricaecula-johnsoni.html Cirricaecula johnsoni] at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Leonard Peter Schultz in 1953.Schultz, L. P., E. S. Herald, E. A. Lachner, A. D. Welander and L. P. Woods, 1953 [ref. 3975] Fishes of the Marshall and Marianas islands. Vol. I. Families from Asymmetrontidae through Siganidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum No. 202, v. 1: i-xxxii + 1-685, Pls. 1-74. It is a tropical, marine eel which is known from the Rongerik Atoll, Marshall Islands, in the western central Pacific Ocean. Males can reach a maximum total length of 40 centimetres.