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sp. vel. acutirostris
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(non Brisout de
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record).
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:
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.
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD42FFD0FF36FEF4C26CFE9F" bold="true" box="[151,266,279,304]" pageId="17" pageNumber="66">Diagnosis</emphasis>
. An elongate species with: tail 1.81.9, head 1419, and body depth
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total length; 3 preopercular pores and 3 pores in supratemporal canal; teeth conical, uniserial on jaws and vomer; 57 vomerine teeth; body coloration nearly uniform pale yellow to tan, fresh specimens have a fine sprinkling of melanophores which can take on a mottled or freckled appearance; two brown blotches behind the eye surround a pale patch about equal to eye; and MVF 62142, total vertebrae 137145 (n=14).
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD42FFD0FF66FE2FC391FE4A" bold="true" box="[199,247,460,485]" pageId="17" pageNumber="66">Size</emphasis>
. The largest specimen examined is
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, sex unknown.
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD42FFD0FF66FE0CC23FFDA7" bold="true" box="[199,345,495,520]" pageId="17" pageNumber="66">Distribution</emphasis>
. Known from the western Atlantic, from the Carolinas, Florida,
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(mostly
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD42FFD0FF66FDD4C25DFDFF" bold="true" box="[199,315,567,592]" pageId="17" pageNumber="66">Remarks.</emphasis>
Most of this treatment is taken from McCosker
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. (1989:321322).
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described and illustrated the leptocephalus of
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The
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record is based on Cadenat and Marchals (1963) description of
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) collected by dredge at
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depth off Lemon Valley,
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. A
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specimen from that collection was described and illustrated by
<bibRefCitation id="EFEA8CF4FD42FFD0FC1DFD47C60EFD12" author="Blache" box="[956,1384,676,701]" pageId="17" pageNumber="66" refString="Blache, J. &amp; Bauchot, M. L. (1972) Contribution a la connaissance des poissons Anguilliformes de la cote occidentale d'Afrique. 13 e note: les genres Verma, Apterichthus, Ichthyapus, Hemerorhinus, Caecula, Dalophis avec la description de deux genres nouveaux (Fam. des Ophichthidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire Sciences Naturelles, Series A, 34, 692 - 773." type="journal article" year="1972">Blache and Bauchot (1972:702705)</bibRefCitation>
and agrees with
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD42FFD0FE83FD2BC2FBFD4F" box="[290,413,712,736]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="66">A. kendalli</emphasis>
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in its cephalic pore condition, dentition, and vertebral number (143).
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stated that larvae identified as
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD42FFD0FE05FD0FC178FCAB" box="[420,542,748,772]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="66">A. kendalli</emphasis>
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by
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and by
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are actually
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.
</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD42FFD0FF66FCD7C2D7FCE2" bold="true" box="[199,433,820,845]" pageId="17" pageNumber="66">Material examined.</emphasis>
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,
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TL, including the
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(
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44304,
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TL). Those specimens are listed in McCosker
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. (1989:322).
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