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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).
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 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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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