One New Record Genus and Three New Record Species of Snake Eels (Ophichthidae: Anguilliformes) from Taiwan

Yung-Chieh Chiu ； James Lin ； Hong-Ming Chen

《Journal of Marine Science and Technology》 21卷特刊 (2013/12) Pp. 201-206

https://doi.org/10.6119/JMST-013-1220-10

並列摘要

The tropical and subtropical eel family Ophichthidae are the most diverse Anguilliformes fishes which occupy a variety of marine habitats such as reefs, sand and mud substrates. In Taiwan, we can often collect them from the capture of bottom-trawl fishery. In this study, we added two new recorded species Ophichthus machidai and O. obtusus of ophichthid eels collected from Da-xi fish market by comparing their morphological measurements, vertebral counts and head pores with the other six species of the genus Ophichthus: O. apicalis, O. aphotistos, O. asakusae, O. erabo, O. tsuchidae, O. urolophus. We also obtained a unique specimen from Tong-gang fish market and we identified this specimen as Skythrenchelys zabra, it would be the new recorded genus and species in Taiwan as well.

並列關鍵字

new record ； Ophichthidae ； Anguilliformes ； Taiwan

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