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Synaphobranchus affinis Gunther 1877
Description
Synaphobranchus affinis Günther, 1877.
Slope Cutthroat Eel. To 160 cm (63 in) TL (Sulak and Shcherbachev 1997). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Russian Western Pacific (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); unknown in eastern North Pacific except for one Bering Sea, Alaska record (Mecklenburg et al. 2002); Hawai’i (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Depth: 290–2,400 m (951–7,872 ft) (min.: Sulak and Shcherbachev 1997; max. Orlov and Tokranov 2019).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Synaphobranchidae
- Genus
- Synaphobranchus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gunther
- Species
- affinis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Synaphobranchus affinis Gunther, 1877 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Sulak, 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.
- Orlov, A. M. & Tokranov, A. M. (2019) Checklist of deep-sea fishes of the Russian northwestern Pacific Ocean found at depths below 1000 m. Progress in Oceanography, 176, https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. pocean. 2019.102143