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Ilyophis blachei Saldanha & Merrett 1982
Description
Ilyophis blachei Saldanha & Merrett 1982
(Fig. 4 A)
Material examined. Two specimens 595.0–641.0 mm TL: MNRJ 26827 (2, 595.0–641.0 mm), T, E-528.
Distribution. Ilyophis blachei was described from the western North Atlantic (51º04’N, 11º59’W), and is known from the Rio Grande Rise in the WSA, temperate Indian Ocean, the eastern Atlantic from southern Africa and Europe, but is absent from the Equatorial region. (Parin et al. 1995; Sulak & Shcherbachev 1997).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Synaphobranchidae
- Genus
- Ilyophis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Saldanha & Merrett
- Species
- blachei
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ilyophis blachei Saldanha, 1982 sec. Melo, Nunan, Braga & Costa, 2009
References
- Parin, N. V., Shcherbachev, Y. N. & Pakhorukov, M. P. (1995) Bottom and near-bottom fishes of the Rio Grande Rise (Southwest Atlantic Ocean). Journal of Ichthyology, 35, 205 - 219.
- Sulak, K. J. & Shcherbachev, Y. N. (1997) Zoogeography and systematics of six deep-living genera of synaphobranchid eels, with a key to taxa and description of two new species of Ilyophis. Bulletin of Marine Science, 60, 1158 - 1194.