Pinhead pearlfish

Pinhead pearlfish
A pinhead pearlfish, Encheliophis boraborensis, at Kaltim, Indonesia - night dive
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Ophidiiformes
Family:	Carapidae
Genus:	Encheliophis
Species:	E. boraborensis
Binomial name
Encheliophis boraborensis (Kaup, 1856) [1]
Synonyms[2]
Carapus parvipinnis (Kaup, 1856) Carapus boraborensis (Kaup, 1856) Encheliophis parvipinnis (Kaup, 1856) Fierasfer boraborensis Kaup, 1856 Fierasfer kagoshimanus Steindachner & Döderlein, 1887 Fierasfer parvipinnis Kaup, 1856 Jordanicus parvipinnis (Kaup, 1856) Rhizoiketicus carolinensis Vaillant, 1893

The pinhead pearlfish, Encheliophis boraborensis, is a species of slender, ray-finned fish in the family Carapidae found in the tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean; it normally lives inside the body cavity of a sea cucumber such as the pineapple sea cucumber (Thelenota ananas) or the leopard sea cucumber (Bohadschia argus).