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Eurypharyngidae
Description
Family Eurypharyngidae
Eurypharynx pelecanoides Vaillant, 1882 —Pelican eel (Fig. 7)
3 specimens between 34 and 47 cm TL were caught at depths between 780–1,674 m. Habitat and Distribution: meso- to abyssopelagic and bathypelagic. Circumglobal in tropical and temperate waters. In the Atlantic Ocean it is recorded from off Iceland (65ºN) to 48ºS. Vulnerability: DD (IUCN), MHV (FishBase).
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Published as part of Bañon, Rafael, Arronte, Juan Carlos, Rodriguez-Cabello, Cristina, Piñeiro, Carmen-Gloria, Punzon, Antonio & Serrano, Alberto, 2016, Commented checklist of marine fishes from the Galicia Bank seamount (NW Spain), pp. 293-333 in Zootaxa 4067 (3) on page 305, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/256670Files
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Eurypharyngidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Saccopharyngiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Taxon rank
- family