Leptocephalus arabicus D'Ancona, 1928

Golani, Daniel & Bogorodsky, Sergey V., 2010, 2463, Zootaxa 2463, pp. 1-135 : 60

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Leptocephalus arabicus D'Ancona, 1928
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Leptocephalus arabicus D'Ancona, 1928

Despite clear and explicit indications that this species does not exist in the Red Sea, it was included in CLOFRES ( Dor, 1984). This western Indian Ocean species is placed in the genus Gavialiceps (see, Karmovskaya, 1994).

D'Ancona, U. (1928). Murenoidi (Apoes) del Mar Rosso e del Golfo di Aden. Materiali raccolti dal Prof. Luigi Sanzo nella Campagna della R. N. Ammiraglio Magnaghi 1923 - 24. Memoire, Real Comitato Talassografico Italiano. 146 p.

Dor, M. (1984) CLOFRES: Checklist of the Fishes of the Red Sea. The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Jerusalem. 437 pp.

Karmovskaya, E. S. (1994) Systematics and distribution of the eel genus Gavialiceps (Congridae) in the Indo-West Pacific. Journal of Ichthyology, 34 (3), 73 - 89.