The Yano's snipe eel (''Labichthys yanoi'') is an

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

Nemichthyidae Snipe eels are a family, Nemichthyidae, of eels that consists of nine species in three genera. They are pelagic fishes, found in every ocean, mostly at depths of but sometimes as deep as . Depending on the species, adults may reach in length, y ...

(snipe eels).''Labichthys yanoi''
at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Giles Willis Mead and Ira Rubinoff in 1966, originally under the genus '' Avocettinops''.Mead, G. W. and I. Rubinoff, 1966 (25 Feb.) ef. 9044''Avocettinops yanoi, a new nemichthyid eel from the southern Indian Ocean.'' Breviora No. 241: 1-6. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from

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, in the southwestern

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Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Shigeru Yano, of

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, Hawai‘i whose maintenance and operation of the nets and the associated equipment contributed to the success of the authors’ trawling expeditions.

References

Nemichthyidae Taxa named by Giles Willis Mead Taxa named by Ira Rubinoff Fish described in 1966 {{Anguilliformes-stub