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(3, 118
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)
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,
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<collectingCountry id="6C9E76433B2D7A2EFA894759EC64FE53" name="New Caledonia" pageId="1" pageNumber="27">New Caledonia</collectingCountry>
,
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, 4
<collectingMunicipality id="F452ACA93B2D7A2EFDD74724EFEFFE53" box="[570,666,1108,1134]" pageId="1" pageNumber="27">October</collectingMunicipality>
, 1985, station
</materialsCitation>
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,
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22
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09' S
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.,
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167
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13' E
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, depth
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, shrimp trawl; C.
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<collectionCode id="7298AE163B2D7A2EFE8D470CEC02FEAB" box="[352,375,1148,1174]" country="Chile" name="Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile" pageId="1" pageNumber="27">R</collectionCode>
.
<collectionCode id="7298AE163B2D7A2EFE69470CECECFEAB" box="[388,409,1148,1174]" country="Canada" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:13946" name="Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium" pageId="1" pageNumber="27" type="Museum">V</collectionCode>
. “
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”, MUSORSTOM 4
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;
<materialsCitation id="A4E13C8E3B2D7A2EFCEB470CE9F0FEAB" box="[774,1157,1148,1174]" collectionCode="MNHN" country="New Caledonia" pageId="1" pageNumber="27" specimenCode="MNHN 2000-1105" specimenCount="1" typeStatus="paratype">
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(
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)
</materialsCitation>
,
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<collectingCountry id="6C9E76433B2D7A2EFB7F470CE83EFEAB" box="[1170,1355,1148,1174]" name="New Caledonia" pageId="1" pageNumber="27">New Caledonia</collectingCountry>
,
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, 2
<collectingMunicipality id="F452ACA93B2D7A2EFE8D47D7ECB5FEFC" box="[352,448,1191,1217]" pageId="1" pageNumber="27">October</collectingMunicipality>
, 1985, station CP 236,
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22
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11' S
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.,
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167
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15' E
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, depth
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</quantity>
, beam trawl; C
</materialsCitation>
.
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<collectionCode id="7298AE163B2D7A2EFA8C47D7E80DFEFC" box="[1377,1400,1191,1217]" country="Chile" name="Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile" pageId="1" pageNumber="27">R</collectionCode>
.
<collectionCode id="7298AE163B2D7A2EFA6E47D7E8EDFEFC" box="[1411,1432,1191,1217]" country="Canada" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:13946" name="Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium" pageId="1" pageNumber="27" type="Museum">V</collectionCode>
. “
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”, MUSORSTOM 4
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;
<materialsCitation id="A4E13C8E3B2D7A2EFE1B47BFEEDEFED4" box="[502,939,1231,1257]" collectionCode="MNHN" country="New Caledonia" pageId="1" pageNumber="27" specimenCode="MNHN 2002-3735" specimenCount="1" typeStatus="paratype">
<specimenCode id="442F9EA83B2D7A2EFE1B47BFEFA3FED4" box="[502,726,1231,1257]" collectionCode="MNHN" country="France" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34988" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34988" name="Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle" pageId="1" pageNumber="27">MNHN 2002-3735</specimenCode>
(4, 112
<quantity id="D3719B363B2D7A2EFCAD47BFEED6FED4" box="[832,931,1231,1257]" metricMagnitude="-1" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.53" pageId="1" pageNumber="27" unit="mm" value="153.0">153 mm</quantity>
)
</materialsCitation>
,
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;
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<specimenCode id="442F9EA83B2D7A2EFAAF47BFEC63FF2C" collectionCode="MNHN" country="France" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34988" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34988" name="Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle" pageId="1" pageNumber="27">MNHN 2007-0237</specimenCode>
(2, 116 and
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)
</materialsCitation>
,
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;
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<specimenCode id="442F9EA83B2D7A2EFCD84787E960FF2C" box="[821,1045,1271,1297]" collectionCode="MNHN" country="France" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34988" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34988" name="Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle" pageId="1" pageNumber="27">MNHN 2005-2589</specimenCode>
(2, 65 and
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)
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, Solomon Is., 1 October, 2001, station CP 1800,
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09
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21' S
</geoCoordinate>
.,
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160
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23' E
</geoCoordinate>
, depth
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, beam trawl; C.
<materialsCitation id="A4E13C8E3B2D7A2EFAED4652EC63FF59" collectionCode="R, V" location="Salomon" pageId="1" pageNumber="27" specimenCount="1" typeStatus="paratype">
<collectionCode id="7298AE163B2D7A2EFAED4652E862FF01" box="[1280,1303,1314,1340]" country="Chile" name="Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile" pageId="1" pageNumber="27">R</collectionCode>
.
<collectionCode id="7298AE163B2D7A2EFACB4652E84EFF01" box="[1318,1339,1314,1340]" country="Canada" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:13946" name="Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium" pageId="1" pageNumber="27" type="Museum">V</collectionCode>
. “Alis”,
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1
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.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B2D7A2EFF2B4601EC33FFB6" bold="true" box="[198,326,1393,1419]" pageId="1" pageNumber="27">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
A small, moderately elongate congrid eel of the subfamily
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, genus
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<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B2D7A2EFB1F4602E8E0FFB6" box="[1266,1429,1394,1419]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="27">Bathycongrus</emphasis>
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, with color pattern of two large black spots on anterior half of dorsal fin and one large spot on anal fin roughly opposite posterior spot on dorsal fin (
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). Tail slender, attenuate, though not filiform. Dorsal-fin origin over tip of pectoral fin. Snout projecting beyond lower jaw. Upper labial flange rudimentary or absent. Teeth small, conical, in ca. four rows on jaws, in a short oval patch on vomer, intermaxillary teeth exposed when mouth closed. Total vertebrae 117119, preanal lateral-line pores 2629.
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<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B2D7A2EFF2B4511EC22FC46" bold="true" box="[198,343,1633,1659]" pageId="1" pageNumber="27">Description</emphasis>
(values given for
<typeStatus id="CB3288713B2D7A2EFDC34512EFEDFC41" box="[558,664,1634,1660]" pageId="1" pageNumber="27" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
, with those of
<typeStatus id="CB3288713B2D7A2EFCA84512EEC0FC41" box="[837,949,1634,1660]" pageId="1" pageNumber="27" type="paratype">paratypes</typeStatus>
in parentheses). Measurements as % TL: preanal length 35.5 (32.836.6), predorsal length 18.7 (17.219.6), head length 15.8 (14.716.4), trunk 19.6 (17.220.9), depth at gill opening 5.5 (5.26.8), depth at anus 4.5 (4.25.6); as % of head length: snout length 26.1 (21.525.4), horizontal eye diameter 22.9 (19.423.8), snout to rictus 35.5 (31.635.7), gill opening 14.3 (13.515.9), interbranchial 18.4 (18.421.4), pectoral-fin length 34.7 (31.137.5). Meristic characters: preanal lateral-line (LL) pores 27 (2629), preoperculomandibular (POM) pores 10, infraorbital (IO) pores 5, supraorbital (SO) pores 3, supratemporal commissure (STC) pores 1 (01). Predorsal vertebrae 9 (79), preanal 29 (2830), precaudal 38 (3739), total 117 (117119). Pectoral-fin rays 12 (11, 13), dorsal fin-rays 219 (203 221), preanal dorsal fin-rays 45 (3948), anal fin-rays 164 (164177), caudal fin-rays 5+3+2. Branchiostegal rays 9 (8, 9, 9).
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<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B2E7A2DFF7A4152EC62F804" bold="true" box="[151,279,546,570]" pageId="2" pageNumber="28">FIGURE 1.</emphasis>
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, holotype, 155 mm TL, MNHN 2002-3924.
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<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B2E7A2DFF7A4746EC62FE70" bold="true" box="[151,279,1078,1102]" pageId="2" pageNumber="28">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
, holotype, head. Line indicates dorsal-fin origin.
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<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B2E7A2DFF7A46C1EC62FFF5" bold="true" box="[151,279,1457,1481]" pageId="2" pageNumber="28">FIGURE 3.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B2E7A2DFEF046C3EF54FFF5" box="[285,545,1459,1480]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="28">Bathycongrus trimaculatus</emphasis>
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, head showing location of head pores.
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<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B2E7A2DFF7A44A6EC62FDD0" bold="true" box="[151,279,2006,2030]" pageId="2" pageNumber="28">FIGURE 4.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B2E7A2DFEF044A8EF54FDD0" box="[285,545,2008,2029]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="28">Bathycongrus trimaculatus</emphasis>
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, upper (left) and lower (right) teeth.
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Body moderately elongate, round in cross section anteriorly, becoming more compressed posteriorly, tip of tail moderately attenuate; anus near anterior third of total length. Dorsal fin begins over posterior part of appressed pectoral fin (
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,
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), continuous around tip of tail with caudal and anal fins. Anal fin begins immediately behind anus. Pectoral fin well developed. Gill opening relatively large, upper end nearly opposite middle of pectoral-fin base; interbranchial broader than gill opening. Myorhabdoi absent, fin rays segmented (from radiograph).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="143636D33B2F7A2CFF2B42F8EE58F857" blockId="3.[151,1437,152,2018]" pageId="3" pageNumber="29">Head deepest about midway between gill opening and tip of snout, tapering anteriorly from this point; snout equal or slightly greater than eye diameter, projecting well beyond lower jaw; fleshy part of snout with a slight median keel on underside, projecting anteriorly beyond anterior end of intermaxillary tooth patch; rictus nearly below middle of eye. Lower jaw with a downturned flange, upper jaw with flange greatly reduced or absent. Eye relatively large. Anterior nostril tubular, near tip of snout, directed ventrolaterally. Posterior nostril elliptical, with a slightly raised rim, at mid-eye level.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="143636D33B2F7A2CFF2B4108EECCF9BF" blockId="3.[151,1437,152,2018]" pageId="3" pageNumber="29">
Lateral line complete, 2629 pores before anus. Head pores large (
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). Supraorbital canal with three pores, the first (ethmoidal) on ventral side of tip of snout, just ahead of lip, the second enlarged and immediately in front of anterior nostril, the third greatly enlarged and immediately above anterior nostril. Infraorbital canal with five pores, four slit-like pores along upper jaw flange, the first three noticeably enlarged, and one large, round pore behind rictus at mid-eye level; adnasal pore absent; no pores behind eye. Preoperculomandibular canal with 10 pores, six before and four behind rictus. Supratemporal commissure variable,
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with no pores,
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with a single, tiny medial pore.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="143636D33B2F7A2CFF2B40E0E8E9FE77" blockId="3.[151,1437,152,2018]" pageId="3" pageNumber="29">
Teeth (
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) moderately large, conical. Intermaxillary in two transverse rows, separated from maxillary and vomerine teeth, mostly excluded from closed mouth. Maxillary and mandibular teeth in bands, wider anteriorly, roughly in four to five rows, narrower posteriorly, in one to two rows; outermost teeth larger than innermost. Vomerine tooth patch longer than broad, reaches to level of posterior nostril; teeth conical, shorter than those of intermaxillary, about equal size, in three to four rows anteriorly and one to two rows posteriorly.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="143636D33B2F7A2CFF2B4728E98AFE4F" blockId="3.[151,1437,152,2018]" box="[198,1279,1112,1138]" pageId="3" pageNumber="29">Gas bladder terminates far behind anus. Stomach reaches about one-half of distance to anus.</paragraph>
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Color in preservative light, yellowish-brown; lateral and ventral surfaces of body and tail without chromatophores; dorsal surface with a darker wash composed of numerous tiny brown chromatophores on either side of dorsal fin. A dark streak on top of snout; dark pigment outlining supratemporal canal; an indistinct patch of pigment on opercle in front of pectoral-fin base (specimens from
<collectingCountry id="6C9E76433B2F7A2CFC144788E9DBFF2F" box="[1017,1198,1272,1298]" name="New Caledonia" pageId="3" pageNumber="29">New Caledonia</collectingCountry>
and
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lighter than those from Solomons they lack the dark pigment outlining supratemporal canal and the indistinct patch of pigment on opercle). Pectoral fins pale. Dorsal and anal fins largely unpigmented except for three distinct black blotches, covering distal edges of several rays; dorsal fin with two blotches, the anterior located immediately behind pectoral-fin tip, the posterior behind anus, opposite or slightly before anal spot; anal fin with one blotch behind anus at a distance slightly more than snout length. Stomach and intestine black in larger specimens, blackish only anteriorly in smaller specimens. Branchial cavity pale.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="143636D33B2F7A2CFF2B4560EE09FC6F" blockId="3.[151,1437,152,2018]" pageId="3" pageNumber="29">
The specimens range from
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. The largest specimen is a mature male,
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TL, with a regenerated tail and an incomplete number (111+) of vertebrae.
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="5C9365583B2F7A2CFF2B452FECDBFC9F" pageId="3" pageNumber="29" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="143636D33B2F7A2CFF2B452FECDBFC9F" blockId="3.[151,1437,152,2018]" pageId="3" pageNumber="29">
<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B2F7A2CFF2B452FEC3EFC44" bold="true" box="[198,331,1631,1657]" pageId="3" pageNumber="29">Etymology</emphasis>
. From the Latin words
<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B2F7A2CFD844510EFE6FC44" box="[617,659,1632,1657]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="29">tria</emphasis>
(three) and
<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B2F7A2CFCCB4510EE09FC44" box="[806,892,1632,1657]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="29">macula</emphasis>
(spot) in reference to the number of spots on the dorsal and anal fins.
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="5C9365583B2F7A2BFF2B45DFEF6BF8AF" lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="30" pageId="3" pageNumber="29" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="143636D33B2F7A2CFF2B45DFEF21FCCF" blockId="3.[151,1437,152,2018]" pageId="3" pageNumber="29">
<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B2F7A2CFF2B45DFEC2AFCF4" bold="true" box="[198,351,1711,1737]" pageId="3" pageNumber="29">Distribution</emphasis>
. Known from six localities, three from
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, one from
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and two from the
<collectingCountry id="6C9E76433B2F7A2CFF7A45A8EC2EFCCF" box="[151,347,1752,1778]" name="Solomon Islands" pageId="3" pageNumber="29">Solomon Islands</collectingCountry>
at
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depth.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B2F7A2CFF2B458FEC19FD24" bold="true" box="[198,364,1791,1817]" pageId="3" pageNumber="29">Comparisons</emphasis>
. The new species is clearly a member of the subfamily
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, based on the following characters: preanal length less than 40% TL, posterior nostril at or above mid-eye level, tip of tail soft and pliable, dorsal- and anal-fin rays segmented. We place it in
<taxonomicName id="D3894D503B2F7A2CFCBD4420EE86FD54" authorityName="Ogilby" authorityYear="1898" box="[848,1011,1872,1897]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Congridae" genus="Bathycongrus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anguilliformes" pageId="3" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B2F7A2CFCBD4420EE86FD54" box="[848,1011,1872,1897]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="29">Bathycongrus</emphasis>
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based on the following characters: snout projecting beyond lower jaw; teeth conical, in narrow bands on jaws, none long and fanglike; vomerine tooth patch not greatly elongate; pores along upper lip enlarged; no flange on upper lip; tip of tail slender, attenuate, but not filiform; stomach and intestine black (
<bibRefCitation id="70184B223B2F7A2CFCC844B8E974FDDF" author="Smith, D. G." box="[805,1025,1992,2018]" pageId="3" pageNumber="29" pagination="460 - 567" refId="ref7128" refString="Smith, D. G. (1989 a) Family Congridae. In: Bohlke, E. B. (Ed), Fishes of the Western North Atlantic. Memoir of the Sears Foundation for Marine Research, No. 1, Part 9, 460 - 567." type="book chapter" year="1989">Smith, 1989a: 522</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="70184B223B2F7A2CFBE144B8E99FFDDF" author="Smith, D. G." box="[1036,1258,1992,2018]" pageId="3" pageNumber="29" pagination="1680 - 1687" refId="ref7234" refString="Smith, D. G. (1999) Congridae In: Carpenter K. E. &amp; Niem V. H. (Eds), FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific, 3, 1680 - 1687, fig. 20." type="journal article" year="1999">Smith, 1999: 1682</bibRefCitation>
). Nevertheless, it differs in some respects from the other Indo-Pacific species of
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<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B287A2BFC7743E8E948FA8C" box="[922,1085,152,177]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="30">Bathycongrus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. In all except
<taxonomicName id="D3894D503B287A2BFB0543E8E81DFA8C" authorityName="Fowler" authorityYear="1934" box="[1256,1384,152,177]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Congridae" genus="Bathycongrus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anguilliformes" pageId="4" pageNumber="30" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bleekeri">
<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B287A2BFB0543E8E81DFA8C" box="[1256,1384,152,177]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="30">B. bleekeri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the vomerine tooth patch consists of one or two distinctly enlarged median teeth, flanked on either side by a curved row of smaller teeth (
<bibRefCitation id="70184B223B287A2BFE044398EE52FB3F" author="Castle, P. H. J. &amp; Smith, D. G." box="[489,807,232,258]" pageId="4" pageNumber="30" pagination="973 - 995" refId="ref6689" refString="Castle, P. H. J. &amp; Smith, D. G. (1999) A reassessment of the eels of the genus Bathycongrus in the Indo-West Pacific. Journal of Fish Biology, 54, 973 - 995." type="journal article" year="1999">Castle &amp; Smith, 1999: 979</bibRefCitation>
, figs. 34). In
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<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B287A2BFC3E4398E9F2FB3C" box="[979,1159,232,257]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="30">B. trimaculatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the vomerine teeth are arranged in a slightly elongate patch, none greatly enlarged, and all more or less the same size.
<taxonomicName id="D3894D503B287A2BFB144260ED80FB6C" authorityName="Fowler" authorityYear="1934" class="Actinopterygii" family="Congridae" genus="Bathycongrus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anguilliformes" pageId="4" pageNumber="30" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bleekeri">
<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B287A2BFB144260ED80FB6C" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="30">Bathycongrus bleekeri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
also has a somewhat elongate vomerine tooth patch, with none of the teeth significantly enlarged, but
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<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B287A2BFF7A4210EC62FB44" box="[151,279,352,377]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="30">B. bleekeri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
lacks the spots on the dorsal and anal fins, and it has fewer vertebrae (113). Among extralimital species,
<taxonomicName id="D3894D503B287A2BFF1742F8EC87FB9C" baseAuthorityName="Smith" baseAuthorityYear="1989" box="[250,498,392,417]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Congridae" genus="Bathycongrus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anguilliformes" pageId="4" pageNumber="30" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="dubius">
<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B287A2BFF1742F8EC87FB9C" box="[250,498,392,417]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="30">Bathycongrus dubius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from the Atlantic also has the vomerine teeth in an elongate patch with none of them greatly enlarged. That species, however, has more vertebrae (120145), reaches a larger size (at least
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), and lacks the three spots on the fins.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="143636D33B287A2BFF2B4170EF6BF8AF" blockId="4.[151,1436,152,658]" pageId="4" pageNumber="30">
<taxonomicName id="D3894D503B287A2BFF2B4170EF70F824" authorityName="Karmovskaya &amp; Smith" authorityYear="2008" box="[198,517,512,537]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Congridae" genus="Bathycongrus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anguilliformes" pageId="4" pageNumber="30" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="trimaculatus">
<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B287A2BFF2B4170EF70F824" box="[198,517,512,537]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="30">Bathycongrus trimaculatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is a small species, reaching maturity at a minimum size of approximately
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TL, and it has fewer vertebrae (117119) than any of the other species except
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<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B287A2BFB8A4158E993F87C" box="[1127,1254,552,577]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="30">B. bleekeri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Many congrid eels have dark-edged dorsal and anal fins, but
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<emphasis id="26FDEAC13B287A2BFD5F4120EE13F854" box="[690,870,592,617]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="30">B. trimaculatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is the only one that has this pigment confined to three discrete, conspicuous spots.
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