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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD58FFCAFF36F92BC2D0F94D" bold="true" box="[151,438,1736,1762]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="60">Apterichtus flavicaudus</emphasis>
(
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,
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD58FFCAFF36F8D0C2DBF8E6" box="[151,445,1843,1865]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="60">Sphagebranchus flavicaudus</emphasis>
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, Pl. 2, fig. 4 (
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locality Auau Channel, between Mauai
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and Lanai
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USNM 50863).
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD58FFCAFF36F893C2E0F829" box="[151,390,1904,1926]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="60">Apterichtus flavicaudus</emphasis>
:
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD58FFCAFF36F850C26CF863" bold="true" box="[151,266,1971,1996]" pageId="11" pageNumber="60">Diagnosis</emphasis>
. An elongate species with: tail 2.12.2, head 1721, 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; 12 vomerine teeth; body coloration light tan with numerous minute brown to dark brown spots on head, body and tail, with a faint white slash angling behind eye to behind jaw corner; and MVF 77158, total vertebrae 154166 (n=20).
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD5FFFCDFF66FF3CC391FF57" bold="true" box="[199,247,223,248]" pageId="12" pageNumber="61">Size</emphasis>
. The largest specimen examined is
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.
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD5FFFCDFF66FEE7C23FFEB2" bold="true" box="[199,345,260,285]" pageId="12" pageNumber="61">Distribution</emphasis>
. Known from between
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depth, captured using rotenone, trawls and dredges. Hawaii,
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, possibly
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, including Lord Howe island (McCosker
<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD5FFFCDFC01FECAC0B7FEEF" box="[928,977,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="61">et al</emphasis>
. 2006) and the
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.
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD5FFFCDFF66FEAFC25DFECA" bold="true" box="[199,315,332,357]" pageId="12" pageNumber="61">Remarks.</emphasis>
Snyders (1904:516) description is based on “the
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, No. 50863,
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Nat. Mus.,
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. long” and 2 other specimens;
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clarified the status of the
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, the
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, and the third non-type specimen. The
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has 80157 vertebrae. Snyders description of the coloration of the fresh specimens (
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and non-type) is informative. He reported “in life it (the cotype) was pinkish anteriorly, the posterior third tinged with lemon yellow.” The non-type in life “was light orange, fading to lemon yellow posteriorly; a indistinct, light, median dorsal stripe extending from occiput to tip of tail; ventral surface slightly tinged with purple, the tint extending about twice the length of head beyond anal opening; side of head with two white spots, the anterior one just behind eyes, the posterior one indistinctly connected over the occiput with its fellow on opposite side.”
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mentioned in the remarks section of
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<taxonomicName id="4C7B8A86FD5FFFCDFD39FD73C079FD07" box="[664,799,656,680]" class="Actinopterygii" family="Ophichthidae" genus="Apterichtus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anguilliformes" pageId="12" pageNumber="61" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="australis">A. australis</taxonomicName>
,
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that species is most similar to
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD5FFFCDFB2CFD73C656FD07" box="[1165,1328,656,680]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="61">A. flavicaudus</emphasis>
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and may ultimately be determined to be conspecific. At this time we are unable to synonymize them with confidence and we will continue to recognize them both as valid.
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A badly damaged specimen dredged off
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(depth unknown) is possibly this species. It has 157 vertebrae. At this time we are unable to identify it with certainty. We have examined a color photograph of a specimen of
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collected by benthic sled off the Lord Howe shelf,
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. Its yellow/orange cephalic coloration and white cheek patch is typical of
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. The status of that specimen is uncertain (M. Francis,
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.,
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).
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reports
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from sandy bottoms of shallow coastal waters of the Izu Peninsula. Underwater photographs have been taken of
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Suzuki
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. (2004
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:7) photographed the head of an eel protruding from the sand at
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off Hasama, Tateyama Bay.
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recorded a specimen as
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from Sagami Bay which Hibino reidentified as
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD5FFFCDFBD8FC1BC79AFBBF" box="[1145,1276,1016,1040]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="61">A. australis</emphasis>
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(see previous section on
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, Oahu;
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, Oahu;
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(damaged specimen),
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, depth not recorded.
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