Histiobranchus bathybius
Description
Histiobranchus bathybius (Günther, 1877).
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).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Synaphobranchidae
- Genus
- Histiobranchus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gunther
- Species
- bathybius
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Histiobranchus bathybius (Gunther, 1877) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Whitehead, P. J. P., Bauchot, M. - L, Hureau, J. - C, Nielsen, J. & Tortonese, E. (Eds.). (1986) Fishes of the North-Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Volumes II and III. UNESCO, Paris.
- Orlov, A. M. & Tokranov, A. M. (2019) Checklist of deep-sea fishes of the Russian northwestern Pacific Ocean found at depths below 1000 m. Progress in Oceanography, 176, https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. pocean. 2019.102143
- Sulak, J. & Shcherbachev, Y. N. (1997) Zoogeography and systematics of six deep-living genera of synaphobranchid eels, with a key to taxa and description of two new species of Ilyophis. Bulletin of Marine Science, 60, 1158 - 1194.
- Amon, D. J., A. F. Ziegler, A. F., Drazen, J. C., Grischenko, A. V., Leitner, A. B., Lindsay, D. J., Voight, J. R., Wicksten, M. K., Young, C. M. & Smith, C. R. (2017) Megafauna of the UKSRL exploration contract area and eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean: Annelida, Arthropoda, Bryozoa, Chordata, Ctenophora, Mollusca. Biodiversity Data Journal, 5, e 14598. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / bdj. 5. e 14598