As Dɑvïd's answer notes, this might be more accurately translated as "sea serpent". With this in mind several interesting features of Egyptology emerge. Firstly, it should be noted that the serpent or Uraeus was, according to wikipedia,
used as a symbol of sovereignty, royalty, deity and divine authority in ancient Egypt.
Wikipedia also goes on to note,
the pharaohs were seen as a manifestation of the sun god Ra, and so it also was believed that the Uraeus protected them by spitting fire on their enemies from the fiery eye of the goddess. In some mythological works, the eyes of Ra are said to be uraei.
It is therefore interesting to note that Ezekiel is specifically addressing Pharaoh Apries (in Greek) or Pharaoh-Hophra (Egyptian) who is typically depicted as wearing a crown or headdress - though this was a rather common crown for Egyptian Pharoas with Pharaoh Amasis, Amenhotep II and probably several others wearing a snake on their crowns.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Apries.jpg
Typically, however, the Uraeus was not directly associated with water. This makes this reference interesting as it might be seen and pejorative and antagonistic towards Pharoah. This may be implying that instead of the Pharaoh's chosen mascot representing royalty it instead represents the evil associated with the evil god of the underworld Apep.
According to this legend, It was thought that each day, Ra emerged from an egg and traveled in a boat known as the Bark across the sky and then crossed into the underworld at sunset. Each night, just before dawn as the Bark passes the mountain of Bahkhu in the underworld, Apep attacks the Bark according to Coffin Text Spell 160 (2181–2055 BCE):
I know that mountain of Bakhu upon which sky leans. ... On the east of that mountain is a serpent, 30 cubits in his length, with three cubits of his forefront being of flint. I know the name of that serpent who is on the mountain. His name is "He overthrows". Now at the time of evening he turns his eye over against Re, and there occurs a halting among the (solar) crew, a great astonishment(?) within the voyage, so that Seth bends himself against him.
With wikipedia's note that "In some mythological works, the eyes of Ra are said to be uraei" it is important to point out that According to the Coffin Texts and the Bremner-Rhind papyrus, Ra's Sole Eye returned from searching for shu and tefnut to find that it had been replaced in its' absence. It became upset and turned into Apep in the "Book of Knowing the Evolutions of Ra, and of Overthrowing Apep"
Therefore, it stands to reason that by calling Apries a sea serpent, Ezekiel may have been cleverly using polemic to malign Apries with Apep; taking what would have otherwise been a compliment (calling him a serpent; divine) and instead calling him a sea serpent (calling him Evil).