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Ophisurus macrorhynchos Bleeker 1853
Description
+ Ophisurus macrorhynchos Bleeker, 1853
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Ophisurus macrorhynchos Bleeker, 1853a:28 (type locality: near Kaminoseki Island, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan).
Voucher specimens: ASIZP 62582, 64629 (Da-xi)
Remarks. A new record for Taiwan; a rare species occasionally collected in deep water by bottom trawl off northeastern Taiwan. The largest individual is more than 2 meters long (Ho, pers. obser.).
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 174, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4060.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/243651
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Bleeker
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Family
- Ophichthidae
- Genus
- Ophisurus
- Species
- macrorhynchos
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ophisurus macrorhynchos Bleeker, 1853 sec. Ho, Smith, Mccosker, Hibino, Loh, Tighe & Shao, 2015