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> Anguilliformes (Eels and morays) > Congridae (Conger and garden eels) > Bathymyrinae
Etymology: Ariosoma: Greek, ari = very, strength, superiority + Greek, soma = body (Ref. 45335).
More on authors: McCulloch & Waite.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecología

marino bentopelágico; rango de profundidad 60 - 600 m (Ref. 54804). Deep-water

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Western Pacific: slope of NE Australia, Lord Howe Rise, New Caledonia, and SE part of South Fiji Basin.

Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 42.2 cm TL (female)

Short description Morfología | Morfometría

Radios blandos dorsales (total): 211-241; Radios blandos anales: 161 - 178; Vértebra: 151 - 161. Diagnosis: The head and body of this species is uniformly light, margins of unpaired fins dark. Dorsal fin originates in front of the base of pectoral fin, above the 4th-6th pore of lateral line. Vertebrae 151-161; trunk 77-82. Pores of lateral line to anus 53-59. Supraorbital canal 6, suborbital canal 8, preoperculomandibular canal 10, occipital commissure 3 (Ref. 54804).

Life cycle and mating behavior Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva

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Karmovskaya, E.S., 2004. Benthopelagic bathyal conger eels of families Congridae and Nettastomatidae from the Western Tropical Pacific, with descriptions of ten new species. J. Ichthyol. 44(1):S1-S32. (Ref. 54804)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

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Ariosoma howensis (McCulloch & Waite, 1916)