Dysomma Alcock, 1889

Ho, Hsuan-Ching & Tighe, Kenneth A., 2018, Three new species of the cutthroat eel genus Dysomma, with comments on the variation of D. taiwanense (Anguilliformes: Synaphobranchidae), Zootaxa 4454 (1) : -

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4454.1.7
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0F14402A-66DA-4A56-9789-0D40F656CC06
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5964568
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scientific name	Dysomma Alcock, 1889
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Dysomma Alcock, 1889 View in CoL View at ENA

Dysomma Alcock, 1889:459 View in CoL (type species. Dysomma bucephalus Alcock, 1889 View in CoL ).

Remarks. TogEthEr wIth thrEE nEw spEcIEs dEscrIbEd hErEIn, 16 spEcIEs In Dysomma arE rEcognIZEd. ThE TaIwanEsE rEcord of D. goslinei Is hErEIn dEscrIbEd as a nEw spEcIEs. It Is notablE that tEn spEcIEs currEntly occur In TaIwan, of whIch sEvEn wErE dEscrIbEd from TaIwan. Although somE of thEm arE only found In TaIwan, morE InvEstIgatIon In thE nEar watErs may rEsult In a broadEr dIstrIbutIon for Each.

MorEovEr, thE spEcIEs prEvIously rEcordEd as Dysommina rugosa from thE wEstErn PacIfIc OcEan Is now dEscrIbEd as a nEw spEcIEs, Dysommina orientalis TIghE et al., 2018.