eel
Eels are ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes (), which consists of eight suborders, 20 families, 164 genera, and about 1000 species. Eels undergo considerable development from the early larval stage to the eventual adult stage ...
in the family
Ophichthidae
Ophichthidae is a family (biology), family of fish in the order (biology), order Anguilliformes, commonly known as the snake eels. The term "Ophichthidae" comes from Greek language, Greek ''ophis'' ("serpent") and ''ichthys'' ("fish"). Snake eels ...
(worm/snake eels).''Scolecenchelys fuscogularis'' at www.fishbase.org. It was first described by Yusuke Hibino, Yoshiaki Kai, and
Seishi Kimura
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* (born 1945), Japanese jurist
* (1902–1974), Japanese physicist
* (born 1974), Japanese manga artist
* (1902–1981), J ...
in 2013.Hibino, Y., Y. Kai and S. Kimura, 2013 (Jan.) ef. 32418''Scolecenchelys fuscogularis (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae, Myrophinae), a new worm eel from Japan.'' Ichthyological Research v. 60 (no. 1): 43-47. It is a marine,
temperate
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water-dwelling eel which is known from Japan, in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. It dwells at a depth range of 90–147 metres. Males can reach a maximum
total length
Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies, for data used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fishery biology.
Overall length
Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish measured f ...
of 26.5 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 (biology), taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany) ...
"''fuscogularis''" means "dark throat" in
Latin
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, and refers to the dark branchial basket of the eel.