Ophichthus urolophus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)

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 : 174

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.5296250

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Ophichthus urolophus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)
status

 

Ophichthus urolophus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) View in CoL

3RAEª

Conger urolophus Temminck & Schlegel, 1846:260 , pl. 114 (type locality: Nagasaki, Japan).

Ophichthus tsuchidae View in CoL ( Jordan & Snyder, 1901): Shen et al., 1993:114.

Ophichthus urolophus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) View in CoL : Shen et al., 1993:114; Shao et al., 2008:238; Ho et al., 2010:table 1; Chiu et al., 2013:206; McCosker & Ho, 2015:73.

Ophichthys urolophus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) : Chen & Weng, 1967:71; Chen, 1969:137; Shen 1984a:117; Chen & Yu, 1986:259.

Ophichthys tsuchidai ( Jordan & Snyder, 1901): Chen & Yu, 1986:259; Shao et al., 2008:238; Chiu et al., 2013:206.

Microdonophis intermedius (Regan, 1905) : Liang, 1951:11; Chen, 1956:76.

Remarks. This is a very common species collected by bottom trawl from shallow to deep waters around Taiwan. In our examination of numerous specimens, we noted that the number of tooth rows changes with growth. There is usually a single row of teeth on both maxilla and dentary in specimens less than 300 mm TL, becoming biserial in specimens larger than 300 mm TL and triserial in specimens larger than 600 mm TL. Several authors have recognized O. tsuchidae from Taiwan, which is a junior synonym of O. urolophus .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Anguilliformes

Family

Ophichthidae

Genus

Ophichthus

Loc

Ophichthus urolophus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)

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

Microdonophis intermedius

Regan 1905
1905
Loc

Conger urolophus

Temminck & Schlegel 1846: 260
1846
Loc

Ophichthus urolophus

Temminck & Schlegel 1846
1846
Loc

Ophichthys urolophus

Temminck & Schlegel 1846
1846
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