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Parabathymyrus brachyrhynchus Fowler 1934

Description

+ Parabathymyrus brachyrhynchus (Fowler, 1934)

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Arisoma [sic] brachyrhynchus Fowler, 1934:269, fig. 30 (Bongo Island, Illana Bay, southern Mindanao Island, Philippines, 7°21'45"N, 124°07'15"E, 158 fathoms [289 m]).

Parabathymyrus brachyrhynchus (Fowler, 1934): Smith & Kanazawa, 1977:532; Ho et al., 2015b:134.

Remarks. A common species collected from deep waters by bottom trawl off northeastern and southwestern Taiwan, more abundant in southwestern Taiwan. Many specimens in the collections were previously misidentified as P. macrophthalmus.

Notes

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 148, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4060.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/243651

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References

  • Fowler, H. W. (1934) Descriptions of new fishes obtained 1907 to 1910, chiefly in the Philippine Islands and adjacent seas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 85, 233 - 367.
  • Smith, D. G. & Kanazawa, R. H. (1977) Eight new species and a new genus of congrid eels from the western north Atlantic with redescriptions of Ariosoma analis, Hildebrandia guppyi, and Rhechias vicinalis. Bulletin of Marine Science, 27 (3), 530 - 543.
  • Ho, H. - C., Smith D. G. & Shao, K. - T. (2015 b) Notes on the congrid eel genus Parabathymyrus from the western Pacific Ocean, with the description of a new species (Pisces: Anguilliformes: Congridae). Zootaxa, 4060 (1), 131 - 139. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4060.1.15