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Type: Article
Published: 2015-12-24
Page range: 86–104
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Review of the arrowtooth eel genera Dysomma and Dysommina in Taiwan, with the description of a new species (Anguilliformes: Synaphobranchidae: Ilyophinae)

National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium, Pingtung, Taiwan
Smithsonian Institution, Museum Support Center, Suitland, MD, U.S.A
Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
Pisces Teleostei taxonomy Dysomma taiwanensis sp. nov. Taiwan

Abstract

Species of the synaphobranchid eel genera Dysomma and Dysommina from Taiwan are reviewed. A total of eight species in Dysomma and one species in Dysommina are recognized. A new Dysomma species is described based on four specimens collected from off Taiwan. It differs from its Taiwanese congeners in having 137–139 total vertebrae, pectoral fin well-developed, 2 intermaxillary teeth, 4 compound teeth on vomer, 40–48 total lateral-line pores, the last at about middle of body, and a uniform brownish color. A key to all species in these two genera in Taiwan is provided.