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Nettenchelys inion Smith & Bohlke 1981
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Nettenchelys inion Smith & Böhlke 1981
Fig. 1 c
Nettenchelys inion Smith & Böhlke in Smith, et al. 1981:555, fig. 8C, 9 (western Atlantic, Straits of Florida, 25°36’N, 79°21’W, depth 458–531 m). Holotype. ANSP 142274 (male, 423 mm). Smith, 1989:603.
Material. Known only from the holotype.
Diagnosis. Anterior vomerine teeth not uniserial; posterior nostril on head just anterior to supratemporal canal; median ST pore present. See Table 1 for additional characters.
Distribution. Straits of Florida, western Atlantic. Larvae of either this species or N. exoria have also been collected in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Greater Antilles, and in the Gulf Stream and Sargasso Sea area of the western Atlantic.
Notes
Published as part of Smith, David G., Lin, James, Chen, Hong-Ming & Pogonoski, John J., 2015, The eels of the genus Nettenchelys, with description of a new species from Taiwan (Teleostei: Anguilliformes: Nettastomatidae), pp. 105-120 in Zootaxa 4060 (1) on page 113, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4060.1.13, http://zenodo.org/record/238161
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Nettastomatidae
- Genus
- Nettenchelys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Smith & Bohlke
- Species
- inion
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nettenchelys inion Smith, 1981 sec. Smith, Lin, Chen & Pogonoski, 2015
References
- Smith, D. G., Bohlke, J. E. & Castle, P. H. J. (1981) A revision of the nettastomatid eel genera Nettastoma and Nettenchelys (Pisces: Anguilliformes), with descriptions of six new species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 94 (2), 533 - 560.
- Smith, D. G. (1989) Family Nettastomatidae. In: Bohlke, E. B. (Ed) Fishes of the Western North Atlantic. Memoirs of the Sears Foundation for Marine Research, 1 (Part 9), pp. 568 - 612.