Ophichthus tomioi

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Ophichthus tomioi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Ophichthidae
Genus: Ophichthus
Species:
O. tomioi
Binomial name
Ophichthus tomioi

Ophichthus tomioi is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). [1] It was described by John E. McCosker in 2010. [2] It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from the Indo-Pacific, including the Philippines, the Seychelles Islands, Marquesas, and Fiji. It dwells at a depth range of 300 to 423 metres (984 to 1,388 ft). Males can reach a maximum total length of 44.7 centimetres (17.6 in). [1]

Etymology

The species epithet "tomioi" was given in honour of Tomio Iwamoto (b. 1939), an ichthyologist at the California Academy of Sciences. [1] Iwamoto collected the holotype specimen. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Ophichthus tomioi at www.fishbase.org.
  2. ↑ McCosker, J. E., 2010 (14 June) [ref. 30840] Deepwater Indo-Pacific species of the snake-eel genus Ophichthus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), with the description of nine new species. Zootaxa No. 2505: 1-39.
  3. ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order ANGUILLIFORMES: Family OPHICHTHIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Archived from the original on 10 December 2021. Retrieved 30 January 2022.


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