Thalassenchelys coheni Castle & Raju 1975

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Anguilliformes; Colocongridae; Thalassenchelys; Thalassenchelys coheni; Yukon; Baja; Canada; Pacific; British Columbia; Milton; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818818; https://zenodo.org/record/5818818

Thalassenchelys coheni Castle & Raju, 1975. Leaflike Eel . To 30.4 cm (12 in) TL (Castle and Raju 1975). Western North Pacific to southern British Columbia (west of northern Vancouver Island at 48°40’N, 126°43’W) (Hanke et al. 2014) to Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California (Shimokawa et al. 1995). Epipelagic; depth: perhaps 3 m to 1,745 m (8–5,724 ft) (min.: Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington; max.: Hanke et al. 2014). Likely the leptocephalus larvae of Congriscus megastomus (Günther, 1877) (Kurogi et al. 2016). : Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 : {"references": ["Castle, P. H. J. & Raju, N. S. (1975) Some rare leptocephali from the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific oceans. Dana Report, No. 85.", "Hanke, G. F., Gillespie, G., Fong, K., Boutillier, J., Peden, A. E. & J. M. Bedard, J. M. (2014) New records of spiny eels (Albuliformes), true eels (Anguilliformes), and bobtail eels (Saccopharyngiformes) in British Columbia, Canada. Northwestern Naturalist, 95, 63 - 76. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / nwn 14 - 01.1", "Shimokawa, T., Amaoka, K., Kajiwara, Y. & Suyama, S. (1995) Occurrence of Thalassenchelys coheni (Anguilliformes; Chlopsidae) in the West Pacific Ocean. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 42, 89 - 92.", "Kurogi, H., Chow, S., Yanagimoto, T., Konishi, K., Nakamichi, R., Sakai, K., Ohkawa, T., Saruwatari, T., Takahashi, M., Ueno, Y. & Mochioka, N. (2016) Adult form of a giant anguilliform leptocephalus Thalassenchelys coheni Castle and Raju 1975 is Congriscus megatomus (Gunther 1877). Ichthyological Research, 63, 239 - 246. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10228 - 015 - 0492 - 5"]}