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, fig. 1 FH;
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<emphasis id="9EB7EA9FFFDFFFC8FF42F9BA7C534779" bold="true" box="[151,274,1578,1604]" pageId="14" pageNumber="123">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Based on the available information (
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), the larva of
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<emphasis id="9EB7EA9FFFDFFFC8FBB0F9BB78304779" box="[1125,1393,1578,1604]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="123">Neoconger tuberculatus</emphasis>
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has fewer preanal myomeres (4648) than any of the Atlantic species (4960). It further differs from
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in lacking the anterior ventral melanophore (vs present); from
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in having a sharper intestinal loop and lacking the anterior ventral melanophore (vs present). It differs from
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species
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in having the posterior lateral melanophore (vs absent) and fewer LVBV myomeres (5153 vs 5760). It differs from
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in lacking the anterior ventral melanophore (vs present).
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<emphasis id="9EB7EA9FFFDFFFC8FF12F8927C104621" bold="true" box="[199,337,1794,1820]" pageId="14" pageNumber="123">Description</emphasis>
(from
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). Intestinal loop sharp, anterior ventral melanophore absent, posterior lateral melanophore present. Predorsal myomeres 5354, preanal myomeres 4648, LVBV 5153, total myomeres 100 101, dorsal-fin rays 180182, anal-fin rays 147165.
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Coast of
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near Sydney,
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This species was described from two larval specimens collected in 1907 at Manly Beach near Sydney in southeastern
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. It has not been reported since, and no adult specimens of
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<emphasis id="9EB7EA9FFFDFFFC8FBEBF82779F846ED" box="[1086,1209,1975,2000]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="123">Neoconger</emphasis>
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are known from the area, or anywhere in the Indo-West Pacific.
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<bibRefCitation id="C8524B7CFFDEFFC9FF12FF077F4B418C" author="Smith, D. G. &amp; Castle, P. H. J." box="[199,522,150,177]" pageId="15" pageNumber="124" pagination="196 - 249" refId="ref12730" refString="Smith, D. G. &amp; Castle, P. H. J. (1972) The eel genus Neoconger Girard: systematics, osteology, and life history. Bulletin of Marine Science, 22 (1), 196 - 249." type="journal article" year="1972">Smith &amp; Castle (1972: 245)</bibRefCitation>
briefly reported finding
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of larval
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<emphasis id="9EB7EA9FFFDEFFC9FB92FF077983418D" box="[1095,1218,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="124">Neoconger</emphasis>
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in the ZMUC that were collected in 1893 and were originally from the Godefroy Museum in
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,
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. The locality was given only as “Sydhavet” (South Sea). Total myomeres were given as 99 and 100 myomeres, close to the values in
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<emphasis id="9EB7EA9FFFDEFFC9FF42FE937C024020" box="[151,323,259,285]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="124">N. tuberculatus</emphasis>
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. No further information is available, but it is one additional piece of evidence for
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<emphasis id="9EB7EA9FFFDEFFC9FB0EFE9378174021" box="[1243,1366,259,284]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="124">Neoconger</emphasis>
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in the Indo-Pacific, assuming that Sydhavet does refer to that ocean.
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