Echelus polyspondylus, McCosker & Ho, 2015

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, Zootaxa 4060 (1), pp. 140-189 : 168

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4060.1.16

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E57EEA21-F6D3-4032-B7B4-8FAEAD74D574

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5296181

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E987BE-FF92-BA7B-BDDA-FEACAB551A16

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Echelus polyspondylus
status

 

* Echelus polyspondylus View in CoL McCosker & Ho, 2015

+αRAEª

Echelus polyspondylus McCosker & Ho, 2015:73 View in CoL , figs. 1–3. (type locality: Dong-gang, southwestern Taiwan).

Remarks. Some specimens of this species were previously misidentified as Myrophis microchir , which indicates the similarity between these two groups. This is a deepwater species, occasionally collected by bottom trawl off northeastern and southwestern Taiwan.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Anguilliformes

Family

Ophichthidae

Genus

Echelus

Loc

Echelus polyspondylus

Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Smith, David G., Mccosker, John E., Hibino, Yusuke, Loh, Kar-Hoe, Tighe, Kenneth A. & Shao, Kwang-Tsao 2015
2015
Loc

Echelus polyspondylus

McCosker & Ho 2015: 73
2015
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