Synaphobranchidae

Bañon, Rafael, Arronte, Juan Carlos, Rodriguez-Cabello, Cristina, Piñeiro, Carmen-Gloria, Punzon, Antonio & Serrano, Alberto, 2016, Commented checklist of marine fishes from the Galicia Bank seamount (NW Spain), Zootaxa 4067 (3), pp. 293-333 : 304

Family Synaphobranchidae

Synaphobranchus kaupii Johnson, 1862 —Kaup's arrowtooth eel

1,264 specimens were caught at depths between 711 and 1,809 m. Length data were available for 1,252 specimens ranging from 8 to 72 cm TL (21.8±11.4). Habitat and Distribution: demersal deep-sea fish between 120– 4,800 m depth, usually 400–2,200 m. Distribution in all major ocean basins: Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans. In the eastern North Atlantic, it is recorded from west of the Faroe Islands slope to the coast of northwest Africa. Vulnerability: LC (IUCN), MHV (FishBase).