Synaphobranchidae

Bañon, Rafael, Arronte, Juan Carlos, Rodriguez-Cabello, Cristina, Piñeiro, Carmen-Gloria, Punzon, Antonio & Serrano, Alberto, 2016, Commented checklist of marine fishes from the Galicia Bank seamount (NW Spain), Zootaxa 4067 (3), pp. 293-333 : 304

publication ID	http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4067.3.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:50B7E074-F212-4193-BFB9-84A1D0A0E03C
DOI	http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5618868
persistent identifier	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/AC642D14-3A42-FFC0-34F2-FC90DFC92F0D
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Synaphobranchidae
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Family Synaphobranchidae

Synaphobranchus kaupii Johnson, 1862 —Kaup's arrowtooth eel

1,264 specimens were caught at depths between 711 and 1,809 m. Length data were available for 1,252 specimens ranging from 8 to 72 cm TL (21.8 ± 11.4). Habitat and Distribution: demersal deep-sea fish between 120– 4,800 m depth, usually 400–2,200 m. Distribution in all major ocean basins: Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans. In the eastern North Atlantic, it is recorded from west of the Faroe Islands slope to the coast of northwest Africa. Vulnerability: LC ( IUCN), MHV (FishBase).