首页|A new species of white-spotted moray eel, Gymnothorax smithi (Muraenidae: Muraeninae) from deep waters of Arabian Sea, India

A new species of white-spotted moray eel, Gymnothorax smithi (Muraenidae: Muraeninae) from deep waters of Arabian Sea, India

扫码查看
原文链接
  • NSTL
  • Magnolia Press
A new species of white-spotted moray eel Gymnothorax smithi sp. nov. is described based on flute specimens collected from the southeastern Arabian Sea, India. This is the first deep water report of a moray eel from Indian waters from 200 in depth. This new species is distinguishable from its congeners by the following combination of characters: greyish brown body overlain with white spots of irregular shape, dorsal-fin origin anterior to gill opening, anus positioned slightly behind the mid-point of the body, serrated teeth and a unique vertebral count 3-5 /57/130-132. [Zoobank URL: urn:lsid: zoobank.org:act:9554CE07-E9E7-4B4F-95CD-54F2BB26FF28]

Anguilliformesdeep-seaArabian Seanew species

Sumod, K. S.、Mohapatra, Anil、Sanjeevan, V. N.、Kishor, T. G.、Bineesh, K. K.

展开 >

Kendriya Bhavan, Minist Earth Sci, Ctr Marine Living Resources & Ecol, Govt India, Kochi 37, Kerala, India

Zool Survey India, Estuarine Biol Reg Ctr, Ganjam, Odisha, India

Kerala Univ Fisheries & Ocean Studies, Panangad PO, Kochi, Kerala, India

Cent Marine Fisheries Res Inst, PB 1603,Ernakulant North PO, Cochin 683018, Kerala, India

Zool Survey India, ANRC, Haddo 744102, Port Blair, India

展开 >

2019

10.11646/zootaxa.4652.2.8

Zootaxa

Zootaxa

ISTP
ISSN：1175-5326
年,卷(期)：2019.(4652)
  • 4
  • 30