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Rhynchoconger smithi Mohapatra, Ho, Acharya, Ray & Mishra, 2022

Smith's longnose conger eel
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Classification / Names Nombres comunes | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes(Género, Especie) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Anguilliformes (Eels and morays) > Congridae (Conger and garden eels) > Congrinae
Etymology: Rhynchoconger: Greek, rhingchos = snout + Latin, conger = conger (Ref. 45335);  smithi: Named for David G. Smith, Division of Fishes, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History..

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecología

marino demersal; rango de profundidad ? - 95 m (Ref. 130180). Tropical

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Eastern Indian Ocean: northern Bay of Bengal (West), India.

Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 66.1 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 130180)

Short description Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría

Vértebra: 159. This species is distinguished by the following characters: head smaller than trunk; eye small, diameter 2.0-2.2 in snout length; rictus reaching to level of the posterior margin of pupil; preanal length more than three times in TL; ethmovomerine teeth patch is broad, with 58-74 blunt teeth arranged in 7-8 irregular rows; vomerine teeth patch is small, with 18-28 granular teeth arranged in 4-6 irregular rows, distinctly separated by narrow spaces from the ethmovomerine and maxillary teeth; supra orbital pores 3 with one supra temporal pore; vertebrae: predorsal 6-7, preanal 32-33 and total 159+ - 164+ (Ref. 130180).

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

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Mohapatra, A., H.-C. Ho, S. Acharya, D. Ray and S.S. Mishra, 2022. A new congrid eel, Rhynchoconger smithi sp. nov. (Anguilliformes: Congridae), from the Bay of Bengal, India. J. Fish Biol. 100(6):1335-1344. (Ref. 130180)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)


CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = No PD50 data   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Nivel trófico (Ref. 69278):  4.0   ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resiliencia (Ref. 120179):  Medio, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo de 1.4-4.4 años (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Moderate to high vulnerability (46 of 100).