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Ariosoma meeki

Description

Ariosoma meeki (Jordan & Snyder, 1900)

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Congrellus meeki Jordan & Snyder, 1900:347 (type locality: Tokyo Bay, Japan).

Anago anago (non Temminck & Schlegel, 1846): Chu, 1957:15; Lee & Yang, 1966:53, fig. 1; Chen & Weng, 1967:43; Lee,

1967:44; Chen, 1969: 132; Shen 1984a:112; Chen & Yu, 1986:252; Shen, 1988:15; Shao et al., 1994a:274. Ariosoma anago (non Temminck & Schlegel, 1846): Chen, 1956:76; Liang & Yeh, 1964:8; Shen, 1998:8. Ariosoma meeki (Jordan & Snyder, 1900): Chen, 2004:31; Shao et al., 2008:239.

Remarks. This species was referred to Anago anago in most previous works. It is the most abundant Ariosoma species in bottom trawl catches in 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

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anguilliformes
Family
Congridae
Genus
Ariosoma
Species
meeki
Taxon rank
species

References

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