Synaphobranchus affinis Gunther 1877
Description
Synaphobranchus affinis Günther 1877
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Material examined. 85 specimens, 108.3–559.0 mm TL: MNRJ 26757 (2, 406.0–532.0 mm), T, E-522; MNRJ 26758 (3, 389.0–443.0 mm, 1 cs), T, E-499; MNRJ 26759 (1, 559.0 mm), AG, ASTRO 2003021301; MNRJ 26760 (30, 222.5–349.0 mm), D-502; MNRJ 26770 (25, 196.0–441.0 mm), T, D-503; MNRJ 26824 (1, 526.0 mm), T, D-506, 27125 (8, 263.0–371.0 mm), T, D-502; MNHN 1989-353 (1, 108.3 mm), MD, 58 CB 98; MNHN 1989-035 (6, 395.0 mm), MD, 65 CB 106; UF 165818 (2, 270.0–303.0 mm), collected with MNRJ 26760; UF 165815 (1, 354.0 mm), collected with MNRJ 26770; USU 0 1398 (1, 197.0 mm), MD, 65 CB 106; USU 0 1301 (1, 520.0 mm), MD, 0 6 CP 07; USNM 389073 (2, 255.0–297.0 mm), collected with MNRJ 26760; USNM 389074 (1, 354.0 mm), collected with MNRJ 26770.
Distribution. Synaphobranchus affinis is being recorded by the first time in the WSA. It was described from Japan and is also known from the tropical and temperate Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans between 44º N and 42º S (Robins & Robins 1989; Sulak & Shcherbachev 1997).
Remarks. USU 0 1301 and USU 0 1398 were reported by Séret and Andreata (1992) as Synaphobranchus kaupii, and NMHN 1989-353 as Cynoponticus savanna.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Synaphobranchidae
- Genus
- Synaphobranchus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gunther
- Species
- affinis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Synaphobranchus affinis Gunther, 1877 sec. Melo, Nunan, Braga & Costa, 2009
References
- Robins, C. H. & Robins, C. R. (1989) Family Synaphobranchidae. In: Bohlke, E. B. (Ed.), Fishes of the Western North Atlantic, Pt 9, 1. Memoir Sears Foundation for Marine Research 1 (9), New Haven, pp. 207 - 253.
- 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.
- Seret, B. & Andreata, J. V. (1992) Deep-sea fishes collected during the oceanographic cruise MD- 55 off Brazil (6 May - 2 June 1987). Cybium, 16, 81 - 100.