22 research outputs found
Larvae of the Ophichthid Eel Genus Neenchelys in the Indo-Pacific
Larvae of Neenchelys Bamber are rather short and deep bodied,
reaching about 75 mm before metamorphosis. They have a relatively short gut
which is pigmented and slightly swollen at intervals along its length, as in larvae
of other myrophine ophichthids. Neenchelys leptocephali also have a conspicuous
midlateral patch of pigment about midway between the anus and
caudal tip, and develop ova before metamorphosis
Osteology and Relationships of the Eel Diastobranchus capensis (Pisces, Synaphobranchidae)
An osteological comparison of Diastobranchus (using its single species
D. capensis Barnard, 1923, known only from the Southern Ocean) with other
synaphobranchoid eels shows that it is intermediate between Synaphobranchus and
Ilyophis (Synaphobranchidae). The Simenchelyidae is more generalized, whereas
the Dysommidae contain the more specialized of the Synaphobranchoidei
A New, Distinctively Colored Snake Eel (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from Northeastern New Zealand
Quassiremus polyclitellum, n. sp., described from three specimens
line-fished at island outliers in 35-58 m represents the first record of Quassiremus
Jordan & Davis, 1891, for the Indo-West Pacific. It has regularly spaced,
mid-brown to orange, vertically rectangular saddles of pigment along body, tail
longer than preanal length, and 166-168 vertebrae. It thus differs from East
Pacific Q. nothochir (Gilbert), which has hourglass-shaped spots ringed with
brown and 138-142 vertebrae, Galapagos endemic Q. evionthas (Jordan & Bollman)
with small oblong spots and 149-153 vertebrae, and western Atlantic Q.
ascensionis (Studer) with large, round spots above, alternating with similar
spots below and 129-136 vertebrae; all three species have the tail shorter than
the preanal length. The strong New World associations of Quassiremus are
noted and the possible extralimital origins as larvae of the holotype and paratypes
are discussed
Larval development of the congrid eel Gnathophis Capensis (Kaup), off Southern Africa, with notes on the identity of Congermuraena Australis Barnard
Zoologica Africana 3(2): 139-15