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a (
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specimen).
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD55FFC7FF36F8CEC26CF8E9" bold="true" box="[151,266,1837,1862]" pageId="6" pageNumber="55">Diagnosis</emphasis>
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. An elongate species with: tail 1.8–2.2, head 18–20, and body depth
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total length; snout sharply pointed in lateral view, dorsal profile
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD55FFC7FDE2F8B6C103F8C3" box="[579,613,1877,1900]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="55">ca.</emphasis>
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30o above lower jaw; 3 preopercular pores and 3 pores in supratemporal canal; teeth conical, uniserial on jaws and vomer; 5–10 vomerine teeth; body mostly pale in preservative, creamy dorsally and reddish-brown ventrally with light and dark head markings in life; and MVF 82–164, total vertebrae 162–167 (n=14).
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD54FFC6FF66FF74C391FF1F" bold="true" box="[199,247,151,176]" pageId="7" pageNumber="56">Size</emphasis>
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. The largest specimen examined is
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, a female.
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. Known from
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and the south Pacific island groups of Rapa,
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, Easter,
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, and possibly Lord Howe. It was captured over sand with associated rock and coral reef bottoms using ichthyocides and dredges between
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<quantity id="4C835CE0FD54FFC6FE28FEE7C29CFEB3" box="[393,506,260,284]" metricMagnitude="1" metricUnit="m" metricValue="5.6" metricValueMax="10.0" metricValueMin="1.2" pageId="7" pageNumber="56" unit="m" value="56.0" valueMax="100.0" valueMin="12.0">12–100 m</quantity>
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depth.
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD54FFC6FF66FEC4C25DFEEF" bold="true" box="[199,315,295,320]" pageId="7" pageNumber="56">Remarks.</emphasis>
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This species is most similar to to
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD54FFC6FD14FECBC033FEEF" box="[693,853,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="56">A. flavicaudus</emphasis>
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(
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)
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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 as valid.
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reported upon a large female specimen collected from the Northland,
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, as
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.
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The specimen, however, has 8 vomerine teeth. Additional information that we have accumulated concerning the vomerine dentition of
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would result in its reidentification as
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published a superb color photograph of the head and throat (the cephalic pores are obvious) of an individual protruding from the sand bottom off Sagami Bay,
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. It was identified as
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD54FFC6FABAFDABC27EFD2B" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="56">Apterichtus flavicaudus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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, however we feel that it is an
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD54FFC6FDCBFD8FC18DFD2B" box="[618,747,620,644]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="56">A. australis</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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.
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<bibRefCitation id="EFEA8CF4FD54FFC6FD5BFD8FC0CCFD2A" author="Hatooka" box="[762,938,620,645]" pageId="7" pageNumber="56" refString="Hatooka, K. (1995) First record of an ophichthid eel Apterichtus flavicaudus (Snyder) from Izu Oceanic Park. I. O. P. Diving News, 6, 2 - 4." type="journal article" year="1995">Hatooka (1995)</bibRefCitation>
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recorded a specimen as
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD54FFC6FB1FFD8FC638FD2B" box="[1214,1374,620,644]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="56">A. flavicaudus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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from Sagami Bay which Hibino reidentified as
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD54FFC6FD2DFD73C075FD07" box="[652,787,656,680]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="56">A. australis</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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; it has 164 total vertebrae, 84 preanal pores, and five vomerine teeth. Numerous subsequent photographs of
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD54FFC6FCA3FD57C0E5FD63" box="[770,899,692,716]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="56">Apterichtus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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were subsequently taken by divers between 12 and
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depth at Suruga and Sagami Bay (http://fishpix.kahaku.go.jp/fishimage-e/). We feel that those underwater photographs taken of
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are identifiable as
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD54FFC6FD41FD1FC007FCBB" box="[736,865,764,788]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="56">A. australis</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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.
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</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B90F2D17FD54FFC6FF66FCFCC2D7FC97" bold="true" box="[199,433,799,824]" pageId="7" pageNumber="56">Material examined.</emphasis>
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,
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TL, including the
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(
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TL). In addition to the specimens listed in
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<bibRefCitation id="EFEA8CF4FD54FFC6FD90FCA7C0C3FCF2" author="McCosker" box="[561,933,836,861]" pageId="7" pageNumber="56" refString="McCosker, J. E. & Randall, J. E. (2005) Notes on the snake eels of the genera Apterichtus and Ichthyapus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) of the central and south Pacific, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa, 800, 1 - 11." type="journal article" year="2005">McCosker and Randall (2005:2)</bibRefCitation>
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is
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P
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, 570 mm (
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prepreservation), from
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, Spirits Bay, Northland (
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,
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), station depth and date not recorded.
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</paragraph>
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