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Species Simenchelys parasitica Gill, 1879

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Species Simenchelys parasitica Gill, 1879

Snubnose Eel, Snubnosed Eel

  • Simenchelys parasiticus Gill, T.N. in Goode, G.B. & Bean, T.H. 1879. A catalogue of the fishes of Essex County, Massachusetts, including the fauna of Massachusetts Bay and the contiguous deep waters. Bulletin of the Essex Institute 11: 1-38 [27].
    Type data:
     Lectotype USNM 21669, Newfoundland Banks off Massachussetts.
    Paralectotype(s) USNM 21673; USNM 21675; USNM 21677; USNM 21872.
    Subsequent designation references:
    Robins, C.H. & Robins, C.R. 1989. Family Derichthyidae. pp. 420-431 in Böhlke, E.B. (ed.). Fishes of the Western North Atlantic. Orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes. New Haven : The Sears Foundation of Marine Research, Yale University Pt 9 Vol. 1 655 pp. [217].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Off Kiama, NSW (34º52´S) and off the Great Australian Bight, WA (127º09´E); temperate, Atlantic Indo-west-central Pacific.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Southern Province (8)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: SE oceanic
    • Western Australia: S oceanic

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental slope.

 

General References

Karmovskaya, E.S. 1978. Preliminary list of eels (Anguilliformes, Osteichthys) of the Australian-New Zealand region (on materials collected during the 16th cruise of the R/V Dimitry Mendeleev). Trudy Instituta Okeanologii. Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Moskva 112: 147-151 [in Russian] [149]

 

Common Name References

Fishbase 2004. Fishbase at. http://www.fishbase.org/Summary (Fishbase, FAO) (Snubnosed Eel)

Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/ (Snubnose Eel)