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Xenomystax atrarius Gilbert 1891

Description

Xenomystax atrarius Gilbert, 1891.

Deepwater Conger or Twinpored Eel. To 100 cm (39.3 in) TL (Smith in Fischer et al. 1995). Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Hart 1973); Newport Beach, southern California (Seigel 1987) to central Chile (37°31’S) (Kong and Meléndez 1991), including Gulf of California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: 116–1,401 m (380–4,595 ft) (min.: Robertson et al. 2017; max.: Morera et al. 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 39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
  • Hart, J. L. (1973) Pacific Fishes of Canada. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 180.
  • Seigel, J. A. (1987) Record of the twinpored eel, Xenomystax atrarius (Anguilliformes: Congridae) from California waters. California Fish and Game, 73, 57 - 59.
  • Kong, I. & Melendez, C. R. (1991) Estudio taxonomico y sistematico de la ictiofauna de aguas profundas capturada entie Arica e Isla Mocha (18 ° 30 ' - 38 ° 30 ' Lat. S). Estudios Oceanograficos, 10, 1 - 81.
  • Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
  • Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  • Robertson, D. R., Angulo, A., Baldwin, C. C., Pitassy, D., Driskell, A., Weigt, L. & Navarro, I. J. F. (2017) Deep-water bony fishes collected by the B / O Miguel Oliver on the shelf edge of Pacific Central America: an annotated, illustrated and DNAbarcoded checklist. Zootaxa, 4348, 1 - 125. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4348.1.1
  • Morera, R. B., Calderon, F. C. & Hernandez, J. M. V. (2019) Abundancia, biomasa y estructura de la ictiofauna demersal en el oceano Pacifico de Centroamerica, basadas en datos de prospeccion pesquera realizados a bordo del B / W Miguel Oliver. Revista Ciencias Las Marinas y Costeras, 12, 27 - 47. https: // doi. org / 10.15359 / revmar. 12 - 1.2