Fifth confirmed record and North Atlantic range expansion of the rare pelagic bobtail snipe eel genus Neocyema (Cyematidae, Elopomorpha)

• Published in: Marine Biodiversity Records
• Main Author: Poulsen, Jan Yde
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2015
• Subjects: Greenland; Denmark Strait; East Greenland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s175526721500024x; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S175526721500024X

A fifth confirmed Neocyema specimen, caught in the Denmark Strait off the coast of south-east Greenland, provides a North Atlantic range expansion for the genus and is compared to all four previous records. Due to taxonomic issues with both adults and larvae, the new specimen from waters near Greenland is tentatively referred to as Neocyema erythrosoma and represents the largest specimen ever recorded. Morphological and molecular data are included for future comparisons. Distributional and morphological differences exist between specimens, although the present rarity of these fishes precludes an evaluation of diversity within Neocyema .