Nettenchelys paxtoni Karmovskaya 1999

Smith, David G., Lin, James, Chen, Hong-Ming & Pogonoski, John J., 2015, The eels of the genus Nettenchelys, with description of a new species from Taiwan (Teleostei: Anguilliformes: Nettastomatidae), Zootaxa 4060 (1), pp. 105-120 : 113-114

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4060.1.13

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CF6D51E1-2BBE-480A-9331-E9D4CA4808D8

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5623643

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0D1D5E2A-884D-FFC2-71A1-F97FB2A4FE65

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scientific name

Nettenchelys paxtoni Karmovskaya 1999
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Nettenchelys paxtoni Karmovskaya 1999 View in CoL

Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 d

Nettenchelys paxtoni Karmovskaya 1999:833 View in CoL , fig. 1 (western Pacific, Vanuatu, 17°46'S, 168°15'W). Holotype. AMS I.34589- 0 0 2 (male, 248 mm).

Material. Known only from the holotype.

Diagnosis. Anterior vomerine teeth not uniserial; posterior nostril just behind head, closer to supratemporal canal than to dorsal-fin origin, approximately over second LL pore; median ST pore absent; 12 POM pores; PDV 5; PAV 39. See Table 1 View TABLE 1 for additional characters.

Distribution. Off Efate Island, Vanuatu ( New Hebrides), western Pacific.

Remarks. The specimen was taken from the stomach of a sea snake, suggesting that it may have come from relatively shallow water.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Anguilliformes

Family

Nettastomatidae

Genus

Nettenchelys

Loc

Nettenchelys paxtoni Karmovskaya 1999

Smith, David G., Lin, James, Chen, Hong-Ming & Pogonoski, John J. 2015
2015
Loc

Nettenchelys paxtoni

Karmovskaya 1999: 833
1999
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