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Kaupichthys japonicus Matsubara & Asano 1959

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+ Kaupichthys japonicus Matsubara & Asano, 1959

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Kaupichthys diodontus japonicus Matsubara & Asano, 1959:293, figs. 1, 2A–B (type locality: Near Kametsu, Tokunoshima, Amami Islands, Japan).

Kaupichthys hyoproroides (not of Strömman, 1896): Shao et al., 2008:237. Kaupichthys diodontus (not of Schultz, 1943): Chen & Yu, 1986:255.

Voucher specimens: ASIZP 54931 (Heng-chun, Pingtung). Also represented by ten catalog records (41 specimens total) in the USNM collection collected by rotenone off southern Taiwan.

Remarks. Previous Taiwanese records of K. hyoproroides and K. diodontus represent misidentifications of K. japonicus and are not valid. The only voucher present in Taiwan is reidentified as the present species. It is notable that there are four rows (two on each side) of blunt teeth on the vomer, whereas the original description described only two, one on each side. However, one of us (KAT) has observed a number of specimens of Kaupichthys that have two rows of teeth on each side of the vomer.

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Published as part of Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Smith, David G., Mccosker, John E., Hibino, Yusuke, Loh, Kar-Hoe, Tighe, Kenneth A. & Shao, Kwang-Tsao, 2015, Annotated checklist of eels (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes) from Taiwan, pp. 140-189 in Zootaxa 4060 (1) on page 143, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4060.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/243651

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4060.1.16 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Family
Chlopsidae
Genus
Kaupichthys
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Anguilliformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Matsubara & Asano
Species
japonicus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Kaupichthys japonicus Matsubara, 1959 sec. Ho, Smith, Mccosker, Hibino, Loh, Tighe & Shao, 2015

References

  • Matsubara, K. & Asano, H. (1959) A new eel of the genus Kaupichthys. Copeia, 1959 (4), 293 - 297. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 1439885
  • Schultz, L. P. (1943) Fishes of the Phoenix and Samoan islands collected in 1939 during the expedition of the U. S. S. " Bushnell. " Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 180, x + 316 pp.
  • Chen, J. T. - F. & Yu, M. - J. (1986) A synopsis of the vertebrates of Taiwan, revised and enlarged edition. Commercial Press, Taipei, 1092 pp. [in Chinese]