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Anguilla bicolor subsp. pacifica Schmidt 1928

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Anguilla bicolor pacifica Schmidt, 1928

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Anguilla pacifica Schmidt, 1928:190, 206 (Type locality: Pacific, north of the equator). Anguilla bicolor pacifica Schmidt, 1928: Tseng & Tabeta, 1983:28; Chen & Yu, 1986:242; Lin, 2007:86; Chen, 2009:4; Chou & Kao, 2011:33; Chang et al., 2011:1; Chang et al., 2013:44.

Anguilla bicolor McClelland, 1844: Shen, 1984a:103.

Remarks. Chen (2009) notes that this species is mainly collected from fresh waters of eastern Taiwan.

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

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