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Thalassenchelys coheni Castle & Raju 1975
Description
Thalassenchelys coheni Castle & Raju, 1975.
Leaflike Eel. To 30.4 cm (12 in) TL (Castle and Raju 1975). Western North Pacific to southern British Columbia (west of northern Vancouver Island at 48°40’N, 126°43’W) (Hanke et al. 2014) to Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California (Shimokawa et al. 1995). Epipelagic; depth: perhaps 3 m to 1,745 m (8–5,724 ft) (min.: Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington; max.: Hanke et al. 2014). Likely the leptocephalus larvae of Congriscus megastomus (Günther, 1877) (Kurogi et al. 2016).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Colocongridae
- Genus
- Thalassenchelys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Castle & Raju
- Species
- coheni
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Thalassenchelys coheni Castle, 1975 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Castle, P. H. J. & Raju, N. S. (1975) Some rare leptocephali from the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific oceans. Dana Report, No. 85.
- Hanke, G. F., Gillespie, G., Fong, K., Boutillier, J., Peden, A. E. & J. M. Bedard, J. M. (2014) New records of spiny eels (Albuliformes), true eels (Anguilliformes), and bobtail eels (Saccopharyngiformes) in British Columbia, Canada. Northwestern Naturalist, 95, 63 - 76. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / nwn 14 - 01.1
- Shimokawa, T., Amaoka, K., Kajiwara, Y. & Suyama, S. (1995) Occurrence of Thalassenchelys coheni (Anguilliformes; Chlopsidae) in the West Pacific Ocean. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 42, 89 - 92.
- Kurogi, H., Chow, S., Yanagimoto, T., Konishi, K., Nakamichi, R., Sakai, K., Ohkawa, T., Saruwatari, T., Takahashi, M., Ueno, Y. & Mochioka, N. (2016) Adult form of a giant anguilliform leptocephalus Thalassenchelys coheni Castle and Raju 1975 is Congriscus megatomus (Gunther 1877). Ichthyological Research, 63, 239 - 246. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10228 - 015 - 0492 - 5