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Lepophidium Gill 1895

  • 1. Museu Oceanográfico Univali, Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, CP 360, 88302 - 202, Itajaí, SC, Brazil. E-mail: mincarone @ univali. br Natural History Museum of Denmark, Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK- 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark. E-mail: jgnielsen @ snm. ku. dk Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Ecologia e Recursos Marinhos, Av. Pasteur, 458, sala 410, Urca, 22290 - 240, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. E-mail: pauloascosta @ uol. com. br

Description

Lepophidium Gill 1895

Type species. Leptophidium profundorum Gill 1863, by being a replacement name.

Diagnosis. Ophidiid with a long, curved rostral spine, reaching tip of snout; head extensively covered with imbricate rows of cycloid scales; no basibranchial tooth patches.

Notes

Published as part of Mincarone, Michael M., Nielsen, Jørgen G., Costa, Paulo A. S. & Rv, Rv, 2008, Deep-sea ophidiiform fishes collected on the Brazilian continental slope, between 11 ° and 23 ° S, pp. 41-64 in Zootaxa 1770 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1770.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5123954

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gill
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Ophidiiformes
Family
Ophidiidae
Genus
Lepophidium
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Lepophidium Gill, 1895 sec. Mincarone, Nielsen, Costa & Rv, 2008