Annotated checklist of eels (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes) from Taiwan
Author
Ho, Hsuan-Ching
Author
Smith, David G.
Author
Mccosker, John E.
Author
Hibino, Yusuke
Author
Loh, Kar-Hoe
Author
Tighe, Kenneth A.
Author
Shao, Kwang-Tsao
text
Zootaxa
2015
4060
1
140
189
journal article
39196
10.11646/zootaxa.4060.1.16
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Enchelycore bikiniensis
(
Schultz, 1953
)
NJdAEWdR
Gymnothorax bikiniensis
Schultz
in
Schultz
et al
., 1953
:116
, figs. 23e, 24 (
Type
locality: Cherry
Island
, Bikini Atoll,
Marshall Islands
).
Enchelycore bikiniensis
(
Schultz, 1953
)
:
Shen
et al
., 1993
:100
, fig. 15-3; Chen
et al
., 1994:47; Loh
et al
., in press:table 1.
Remarks. The presence of this species in
Taiwan
is questionable. It was recorded by
Shen
et al.
(1993)
and Chen
et al.
(1994), but the latter remarked on its similarity to
Enchelycore schismatorhynchus
and questioned whether those two species were distinct. They are in fact easily distinguished by the funnel-shaped nostril of
E. schismatorhynchus
and by the number of vertebrae,
146–153 in
E. bikiniensis
and
137–142 in
E. schismatorhynchus
(
Smith, 2012
)
.