Scolecenchelys gymnota (Bleeker 1857)

Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, Zootaxa 4588 (1), pp. 1-360 : 53-54

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C7390B16-569F-46A2-A823-0018E1934873

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10446905

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1577035E-8030-FF92-EDFC-C94519B20E84

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Plazi

scientific name

Scolecenchelys gymnota (Bleeker 1857)
status

 

Scolecenchelys gymnota (Bleeker 1857) View in CoL — Slender worm eel

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on NTUM 11418 ( 1 specimen, 72.5 mm SL, St. KR 34, between Big Nusa and Little Nusa islands, off Kavieng, Kavieng District   GoogleMaps , 2°34.561’S 150°46.348’E, 10–22 m depth, 7 June. 2014).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Red Sea and East Africa east to Marshall and Pitcairn islands, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia. Sand bottom near reefs, 1–20 m depth. Marine.

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