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Ophichthus lithinus

Description

Ophichthus lithinus (Jordan & Richardson, 1908)

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Leiuranus lithinus Jordan & Richardson, 1908:238, fig. 3 (type locality: Cuyo, Philippines)

Ophichthus lithinus (Jordan & Richardson, 1908): Ho et al., 2010:table 1; Ho & Shao, 2011:23, table 1; McCosker & Ho, 2015:72.

Ophichthus evermanni Jordan & Richardson, 1909:172 (Type locality: Takao [Kaohsiung], Taiwan). Jordan et al., 1913:87; Chen, 1956:76; Chen & Weng, 1967:70; Chen, 1969:137; Shen 1984a:117; Chen & Yu, 1986:259; Shen et al., 1993:113; Shao et al., 1994a:276; Chen, 2004:30.

Ophichthys cephalozona (not of Bleeker, 1864c): Jordan & Evermann, 1902:326.

Remarks. A common species collected from shallow waters around Taiwan, especially in the southwest.

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 pages 172-173, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4060.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/243651

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anguilliformes
Family
Ophichthidae
Genus
Ophichthus
Species
lithinus
Taxon rank
species