Yirrkala gjellerupi is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Max Carl Wilhelm Weber and Lieven Ferdinand de Beaufort in 1916.Weber, M. and L. F. de Beaufort, 1916. The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. III. Ostariophysi: II Cyprinoidea, Apodes, Synbranchi. E. J. Brill, Leiden. v. 3: i-xv + 1-455. It is a tropical, freshwater eel which is known from northern New Guinea (Indonesia). It can reach a maximum total length of .
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