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Ariosoma major Asano 1958

Description

Ariosoma major (Asano, 1958)

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Alloconger shiroanago major Asano, 1958:191 (off Shibushi, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan). Lee & Yang, 1966:55, fig. 3.

Alloconger major Asano, 1958: Chen & Weng, 1967:47; Chen, 1969:132; Shen 1984a:112; Chen & Yu, 1986:252; Shao et al., 2008:239.

Ariosoma shiroanago major (Asano, 1958): Shen, 1998:10.

Ariosoma major (Asano, 1958): Ho et al., 2010:table 1.

Remarks. This is a common species collected by bottom trawl around 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 144, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4060.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/243651

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Congridae
Genus
Ariosoma
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Anguilliformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Asano
Species
major
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ariosoma major Asano, 1958 sec. Ho, Smith, Mccosker, Hibino, Loh, Tighe & Shao, 2015

References

  • Asano, H. (1958) Studies on the conger eels of Japan. I. Description of two new subspecies referable to the genus Alloconger. Dobutsugaku Zasshi [Zoological Magazine Tokyo], 67 (7), 191 - 196. [In Japanese, English summary.]
  • Lee, S. - C. & Yang, H. - C. (1966) Notes on the congrid eels of Taiwan. Bioformosa, 1, 52 - 63.
  • Chen, J. T. - F. & Weng, H. T. - C. (1967) A review of the apodal fishes of Taiwan. Biological Bulletin of Tunghai University, Ichthyology Series, 6, 1 - 86.
  • Chen, J. T. - F. (1969) A synopsis of the vertebrates of Taiwan. Volume 1. Commerical Books Co., Taipei, 548 pp.
  • Shen, S. - C. (1984 a) Synopsis of fishes of Taiwan. Southern Materials Center, Taipei, Taiwan, 533 pp.
  • Chen, J. T. - F. & Yu, M. - J. (1986) A synopsis of the vertebrates of Taiwan, revised and enlarged edition. Commercial Press, Taipei, 1092 pp. [in Chinese]
  • Shen, S. - C. (1998) A review of congrid eels of the genus Ariosoma from Taiwan, with description of a new species. Zoological Studies, 37 (1), 7 - 12.