Ilyophis brunneus Gilbert 1892

Melo, Marcelo R. S., Nunan, Gustavo W. A., Braga, Adriana C. & Costa, Paulo A. S., 2009, The deep-sea Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes (Teleostei: Elopomorpha) collected on the Brazilian continental slope, between 11 and 23 S, Zootaxa 2234, pp. 1-20 : 13

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scientific name	Ilyophis brunneus Gilbert 1892
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Material examined. One specimen, 279.0 mm TL: MNRJ 26826 (1, 279.0 mm), T, E- 496.

Distribution. Ilyophis brunneus was described from the Galapagos Islands (0º 36 ’ S, 89 º 19 ’ W) and is known elsewhere from all tropical and temperate seas, from about 51 º N to 42 º S ( Sulak & Shcherbachev 1997).

References

Sulak, K. J. & Shcherbachev, Y. N. (1997) Zoogeography and systematics of six deep-living genera of synaphobranchid eels, with a key to taxa and description of two new species of Ilyophis. Bulletin of Marine Science, 60, 1158 - 1194.

Abbreviations

MNRJ	Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Actinopterygii
Order	Anguilliformes
Family	Synaphobranchidae
Genus	Ilyophis

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