A new genus and species of worm eels, Sympenchelys taiwanensis (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae: Myrophinae) from the northwestern Pacific Ocean
A new genus and species of worm eels, Sympenchelys taiwanensis (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae: Myrophinae) from the northwestern Pacific Ocean
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西北太平洋的蠕虫鳗新属和新种，Sympenchelys taiwanensis（鳗形目：蛇尾科：Myrophinae）
作者：
Hibino;Y.;Ho;H.-C. and Kimura;S.
记述了一新属一新种--台湾黄鳗--台湾黄鳗。该属有别于所有其他长尾鱼属，因为它有神经和血液刺具发达的桨状尖端，并通过下列特征的组合与两个非常相似的属Mureaenichthys Bleeker 1853和Skythrenchelys Castle&McCosker 1999区分开来：无收缩的鳃开口；紧靠鳃开口后的微小瓣状物；细长的锁骨；三个穹隆前孔；细长的上颌骨；未发育的枕上冠；颌骨和腹骨上的大而弯曲的牙齿。本文记述了采自西北太平洋台湾的5个标本。
A new genus and species of ophichthid eel, Sympenchelys taiwanensis is described. The genus is distinguishable from all other myrophine genera by having neural and haemal spines with well-developed paddle-like tips, and from two closely similar genera, Mureaenichthys Bleeker 1853 and Skythrenchelys Castle & McCosker 1999, by the following combination of characters: an unconstricted gill opening; a minute flap just posterior to the gill opening; a slender cleithrum; three preopercular pores; a slender and distinctly tapered maxilla; an undeveloped supraoccipital crest; and large and recurved teeth on jaws and vomer. Sympenchelys taiwanensis is described from five specimens collected from Taiwan, the northwestern Pacific Ocean.