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Anguilla japonica Temminck & Schlegel 1846

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Anguilla japonica Temminck & Schlegel, 1846

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Anguilla japonica Temminck & Schlegel, 1846:258 (type locality: Japan). Oshima, 1919:263; Chen, 1956:73; Liaw, 1960:4; Chen & Weng, 1967:5; Chen, 1969:124; Shen, 1984a:103; Chen & Yu, 1986:242; Shen et al., 1993:97, fig. 14-5; Shao et al., 1994a:273; Chen & Fang, 1999:51; Chen, 2004:26; Lin, 2007:82; Chen, 2009:6; Ho et al., 2010:table 1; Chou & Kao, 2011:34; Ho & Shao, 2011:21, table 1; Chang et al., 2011:1; Chang et al., 2013:44.

Anguilla bostoniensis (not of Lesueur, 1817):? Günther, 1870:31.

* Anguilla remifera Jordan & Evermann, 1902:325, fig. 7 (type locality: Taiwan). Jordan & Richardson, 1909:171, fig. 8.

Anguilla sinensis McClelland, 1843: Chen, 1956:73.

Muraena japonica (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846): Fowler, 1932a:49, fig. 1.

Remarks. Günther (1870) recorded Anguilla bostoniensis based on several half-grown specimens collected from Taiwan, but their identities are not verified since whereabouts of these specimens are unknown.

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Published as part of Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Smith, David G., Mccosker, John E., Hibino, Yusuke, Loh, Kar-Hoe, Tighe, Kenneth A. & Shao, Kwang-Tsao, 2015, Annotated checklist of eels (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes) from Taiwan, pp. 140-189 in Zootaxa 4060 (1) on page 142, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4060.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/243651

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Family
Anguillidae
Genus
Anguilla
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Anguilliformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Temminck & Schlegel
Species
japonica
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Anguilla japonica Temminck, 1846 sec. Ho, Smith, Mccosker, Hibino, Loh, Tighe & Shao, 2015

References

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