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Echelus myrus Linnaeus 1758

Description

Echelus myrus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Muraena myrus Linnaeus, 1758: 245. Type locality: Mediterranean Sea. Echelus myrus, Gilat & Gelman, 1984: 259, 260, 263.

Comment. According to Froese & Pauly (2014) E. myrus is found in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, at a depth range of 3– 12 m. Off Israel it was found a depth of 120 m (TAU P 14149). Gilat & Gelman (1984) reported the species from 1080–1490 m. Since no voucher specimens exist, we have no way of confirming their identification.

Notes

Published as part of Goren, Menachem & Galil, Bella S., 2015, A checklist of the deep sea fishes of the Levant Sea, Mediterranean Sea, pp. 507-530 in Zootaxa 3994 (4) on pages 521-522, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3994.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/244394

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anguilliformes
Family
Ophichthidae
Genus
Echelus
Species
myrus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Echelus myrus Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Goren & Galil, 2015

References

  • Gilat, E. & Gelman, A. (1984) On the sharks and fishes observed using underwater photography during a deep-water cruise in the Eastern Mediterranean. Fisheries Research, 2, 257 - 271. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / 0165 - 7836 (84) 90029 - 8
  • Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (2014) FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06 / 2014). Available from: http: // www. fishbase. org / search. php (accessed 7 August 2014)