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(Slender-snout worm eel) (
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)
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TL, off
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, bottom trawl, collected by
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from a fish landing ground.
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A species of
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Counts and measurements (in mm) of the
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TL (
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); tail compressed posteriorly, its depth weakly reduced gradually.
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Preserved condition of
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, NMMB-P24388, holotype, 206 mm TL, Dong-gang, Pingtung, southern Taiwan.
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Head moderately large, branchial basket slightly expanded; head 8.8, and head and trunk 3.0 in TL; snout relatively long and slender, tip relatively acute, its length more than twice eye diameter; ventral groove on snout absent; lower jaw included in upper jaw, its tip beyond anterior base of anterior-nostril tube; mouth large, rictus well behind a vertical from posterior margin of eye and slightly behind a vertical through last infraorbital pore, along with a groove reaching to end of jaw; eye moderate in size,
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upper jaw and
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HL, covered by a transparent skin; mid-eye located above mid-jaw (mid-point between tip of snout and end of maxilla); anterior nostril a simple ventrally projected tube, its length half of eye diameter, its opening with a very low rim; inner opening of posterior nostril above upper lip, and outer opening oblique and outside the mouth; rim of outer opening projected ventrally; lips mostly smooth with scattered papillae on upper lip; interorbital region smooth, slightly convex; gill opening constricted, located ventrolaterally.
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Head pores small but obvious; arrangement of sensory pores on head as follows (
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): one + four on supraorbital; three + two on infraorbital, one between anterior and posterior nostrils; six on mandible and three on preopercle; midtemporal and interorbital pores present.
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<emphasis id="08FDEABAD034FFE7C48BF9ABFE8FF964" bold="true" box="[151,278,1659,1684]" pageId="2" pageNumber="43">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
Line drawings of
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A, lateral view of head with sensory pores; B, teeth on maxilla and palatal area; C, teeth on mandible. IPN, inner opening of posterior nostril [inner hole in
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]; OPN, outer opening of posterior nostril [outer hole in
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]. Arrows indicate first mandibular (left), frontal (middle) and mid-temporal (right) pores.
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Lateral-line developed, sensory canal reaching middle portion of tail,
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branchial basket, 23 anterior to dorsal-fin origin, 42 anterior to anus, and
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total.
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Teeth (
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) moderate in size, conical, pointed, relatively slender; teeth on maxilla and vomer uniserial; teeth on mandible mostly uniserial with an additional tooth at each inner side around the symphysis; seven plus three intermaxillary teeth form an oval cluster, the anterior margin arranged in a circular pattern.
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Color (
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) (preserved in 50% isopropyl alcohol) of head and body brown, lower half of head to anterior tail region relatively paler. Dorsal and anal fins pale whitish brown, becoming darker before tail tip; caudal fin dark brown.
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<emphasis id="08FDEABAD035FFE6C4DBFF30FEF8FF0B" bold="true" box="[199,353,224,251]" pageId="3" pageNumber="44">Distribution.</emphasis>
Known only from the
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, from off southwestern
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.
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<subSubSection id="72936523D035FFE6C4DBFED5FC6EFEEF" box="[199,1015,261,287]" pageId="3" pageNumber="44" type="etymology">
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<emphasis id="08FDEABAD035FFE6C4DBFED5FED7FEEF" bold="true" box="[199,334,261,287]" pageId="3" pageNumber="44">Etymology.</emphasis>
From the Latin,
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<emphasis id="08FDEABAD035FFE6C617FED5FD14FEEF" box="[523,653,261,287]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="44">longirostris</emphasis>
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, in reference to the snout shape.
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<subSubSection id="72936523D035FFE6C4DBFEF9FB1DFD77" pageId="3" pageNumber="44" type="discussion">
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<emphasis id="08FDEABAD035FFE6C4DBFEF9FEA2FEB3" bold="true" box="[199,315,297,323]" pageId="3" pageNumber="44">Remarks.</emphasis>
The new species can be easily distinguished from all congeners by its slender and long snout (18% HL vs. 8.415.5% HL). The snout shape is similar to that of members of the genus
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<emphasis id="08FDEABAD035FFE6C04CFE9DFB60FE97" box="[1104,1273,333,359]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="44">Scolecenchelys</emphasis>
Ogilby, 1897
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. The position of the dorsal-fin origin overlaps with that of
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<emphasis id="08FDEABAD035FFE6C70AFEA2FC29FE7B" box="[790,944,369,395]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="44">M. thompsoni</emphasis>
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. The former can be separated from the latter by the snout shape and length (vs. 9.514% HL) and its longer tail (67% TL vs. 5764% TL).
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<bibRefCitation id="5E184B59D035FFE6C4DBFE69FE46FE23" author="Hibino, Y. &amp; Kimura, S." box="[199,479,440,467]" pageId="3" pageNumber="44" pagination="62 - 70" refId="ref4765" refString="Hibino, Y. &amp; Kimura, S. (2015) A new species of Muraenichthys (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from the Indo-Pacific, with revised generic diagnosis. Zootaxa, 4060 (1), 62 - 70." type="journal article" year="2015">Hibino &amp; Kimura (2015)</bibRefCitation>
defined the eye of the congeners of
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as located anterior to mid-jaw, but the position of the eye of the present species is just mid-jaw (mid-point between tip of the snout and end of maxilla). Except for these, our new species agrees well with all other diagnostic characters of
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. In addition, the location of the orbit (from x-ray photo) corresponds with that of other
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. Therefore, we recognized the new species as a species of
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, and the character of the eye location is expanded from “eyes located anterior to mid-jaw” to “mid-eye located anterior to or just above mid-jaw” for the genus.
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