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Macrocephenchelys brevirostris Chen & Weng 1967

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* Macrocephenchelys brevirostris (Chen & Weng, 1967)

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Rhynchoconger brevirostris Chen & Weng, 1967:54, fig. 40 (type locality: Tungkang, southwestern Taiwan). Chen, 1969:132; Shen 1984a:113; Chen & Yu, 1986:253; Shen et al., 1993:117.

Macrocephenchelys brevirostris (Chen & Weng, 1967): Smith in Randall & Lim, 2000:586; Karmovskaya, 2004:S24; Shao et al., 2008:239; Ho et al. 2010:23, table 1; Ho & Shao, 2011:24, table 1.

Remarks. This is a common deepwater species collected by bottom trawls, more abundant off southwestern than in northeastern Taiwan. It is likely a senior synonym of Macrocephenchelys soela Castle, 1990, described from Australia. According to Karmovskaya (2004), this species also occurs in the Philippines and New Caledonia.

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

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E987BEFF86BA6FBDDAFB61AC451E3F

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4060.1.16 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Chen & Weng
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anguilliformes
Family
Congridae
Genus
Macrocephenchelys
Species
brevirostris
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Macrocephenchelys brevirostris Chen, 1967 sec. Ho, Smith, Mccosker, Hibino, Loh, Tighe & Shao, 2015

References

  • 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., Lee, S. - C., Shao, K. - T., Mok, H. - K., Chen, C. - T. & Chen, C. - H. (1993) Fishes of Taiwan. Department of Zoology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 960 pp.
  • Karmovskaya, E. S. (2004) Benthopelagic bathyal conger eels of families Congridae and Nettastomatidae from the western tropical Pacific, with descriptions of ten new species. Journal of Ichthyology, 44 (Supplement 1), S 1 - 32.
  • Ho, H. - C. & Shao, K. - T. (2011) Annotated checklist and type catalog of fish genera and species described from Taiwan. Zootaxa, 2957, 1 - 74.