Deep-water arrowtooth eel
Histiobranchus bathybius (Günther, 1877)
Also calledEgorgé petit-oeil (fra) · Sokoanago (jpn) · syvännepetoankerias (fin) · tupohlavec hlubinný (ces) · Глубоководный гистиобранх (rus) · ソコアナゴ (jpn) · 合鰓鰻 (zho) · 旗鰓鰻 (zho) · 深海旗鰓鰻 (zho)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Remarks. This is a new record for Taiwan, and it is only represented by a single specimen collected from northeastern Taiwan at 2204 – 2334 m.
Annotated checklist of eels (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes) from Taiwan
description
Deepwater Cutthroat Eel. To 137 cm (54 in) TL (Saldanha and Bauchot in Whitehead et al. 1986). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan and Russian North-western Pacific (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); unknown in eastern North Pacific except for one record from south-eastern Bering Sea, Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), and one record from off Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California (Sulak and Shcherbachev 1997). Depth: 295 – 4,855 m (968 – 15,928 ft) (min.: Orlov and Tokranov 2019; max.: Saldanha and Bauchot in Whitehead et al. 1986). We classify this species in Histiobranchus following Sulak and Shcherbachev (1997). Histobranchus cf. bathybius was observed in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (about 12 ° 27.2 ’ N, 116 ° 38.9 ’ W), well south of the Cabo San Lucas record (Amon et al. 2017).
Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2402835.