Anguilla japonica Temminck & Schlegel 1846

• Main Authors: Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Smith, David G., Mccosker, John E., Hibino, Yusuke, Loh, Kar-Hoe, Tighe, Kenneth A., Shao, Kwang-Tsao
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Anguilliformes; Anguillidae; Anguilla; Anguilla japonica; Fang; Anguilla anguilla
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5295892; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5295892

Anguilla japonica Temminck & Schlegel, 1846 R∗ª Anguilla japonica Temminck & Schlegel, 1846: 258 (type locality: Japan). Oshima, 1919: 263; Chen, 1956: 73; Liaw, 1960: 4; Chen & Weng, 1967: 5; Chen, 1969: 124; Shen, 1984 a: 103; Chen & Yu, 1986: 242; Shen et al., 1993: 97, fig. 14 - 5; Shao et al., 1994 a: 273; Chen & Fang, 1999: 51; Chen, 2004: 26; Lin, 2007: 82; Chen, 2009: 6; Ho et al., 2010:table 1; Chou & Kao, 2011: 34; Ho & Shao, 2011: 21, table 1; Chang et al., 2011: 1; Chang et al., 2013: 44. Anguilla bostoniensis (not of Lesueur, 1817):? Günther, 1870: 31. * Anguilla remifera Jordan & Evermann, 1902: 325, fig. 7 (type locality: Taiwan). Jordan & Richardson, 1909: 171, fig. 8. Anguilla sinensis McClelland, 1843: Chen, 1956: 73. Muraena japonica (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846): Fowler, 1932 a: 49, fig. 1. Remarks. Günther (1870) recorded Anguilla bostoniensis based on several half-grown specimens collected from Taiwan, but their identities are not verified since whereabouts of these specimens are unknown. Published as part of Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Smith, David G., Mccosker, John E., Hibino, Yusuke, Loh, Kar-Hoe, Tighe, Kenneth A. & Shao, Kwang-Tsao, 2015, Annotated checklist of eels (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes) from Taiwan, pp. 140-189 in Zootaxa 4060 (1) on page 142, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4060.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/243651