eel
Eels are ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes (), which consists of eight suborders, 19 families, 111 genera, and about 800 species. Eels undergo considerable development from the early larval stage to the eventual adult stage ...
in the family
Congridae
The Congridae are the family of conger and garden eels. Congers are valuable and often large food fishes, while garden eels live in colonies, all protruding from the sea floor after the manner of plants in a garden (thus the name). The family i ...
(conger/garden eels).''Ariosoma howensis'' at www.fishbase.org. It was described by
Allan Riverstone McCulloch
Allan Riverstone McCulloch (20 June 1885 – 1 September 1925) was a prominent Australian ichthyologist.
Born in Sydney, Australia, McCulloch began his scientific career at the age of 13 as an unpaid assistant to Edgar Ravenswood Waite in t ...
and
Edgar Ravenswood Waite
Edgar Ravenswood Waite (5 May 1866 – 19 January 1928) was a British/ Australian zoologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and ornithologist.
Waite was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, the second son of John Waite, a bank clerk,
and his wife ...
in 1916, originally under the genus '' Congermuraena''.McCulloch, A. R. and E. R. Waite, 1916 ef. 15058''Additions to the fish-fauna of Lord Howe Island.'' No. 5. Transactions Royal Society of South Australia v. 40: 437-451, Pls. 40-43. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from the western
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...
South Fiji Basin
The South Fiji Basin ( also Fiji Basin ) is a large deep oceanic basin in the south-west Pacific Ocean, south of Fiji. It was formed from the then Indo-Australian Plate and is delimited to the north west by the New Hebrides Trench, and the Hunt ...
. It is known to dwell at a depth range of 60–600 metres. Females can reach a maximum
total length
Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies. These data are used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fisheries biology.
Overall length
* Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish ...
of 42.2 centimetres.
The
species epithet Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany)
A botanical name ...
and common name are derived from the
Lord Howe Rise
The Lord Howe Rise is a deep sea plateau which extends from south west of New Caledonia to the Challenger Plateau, west of New Zealand in the south west of the Pacific Ocean. To its west is the Tasman Basin and to the east is the New Caledonia ...