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IN my paper “On the Occurrence of Leptocephali (Larval Murænoids) in the Atlantic West of Europe” (Meddelelser fra Kommissionen for Havundersøgelser, Serie Fiskeri, Bind iii., No. 6, 1909, p. 12, Pl. i., Fig. 8, Pl. ii., Figs. 1–7), I have described and figured a hitherto unknown Leptocephalus species under the name of Leptocephalus hyoproroides, n.sp. It had escaped my attention, however, that this name had already been employed by P. Strömman in “Leptocephalids in the University Zoological Museum at Upsala”, Upsala, 1896, p. 39, Pl. iv., Figs. 5–6, for another form similar in habit, but differing quite definitely in several characters, e.g. the pigmentation and position of the anus, from the form described by me. I would therefore propose that the name of the latter should be changed to Leptocephalus thorianus, n.sp. (after the Danish research steamer Thor, on the cruises of which the species in question was discovered).
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SCHMIDT, J. Leptocephalus hyoproroides and L. thorianus. Nature 84, 9 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084009c0
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