Swollengut Worm Eel, Neoconger tuberculatus (Castle 1965)


Holotype of the Swollengut Worm Eel, Neoconger tuberculatus, AMS IA.2477, from Manly Beach, New South Wales. Source: Fig. 1 (F-H), in Castle (1965) Trans. Roy. Soc. N. Z., Zool. 7(7): 125-133. License: All rights reserved

Summary:
Known only from two larval specimens (leptocephali) that washed ashore on Manly Beach, Sydney in 1907. The adults are unknown.

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Bray, D.J. 2018, Neoconger tuberculatus in Fishes of Australia, accessed 29 Mar 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/1994

Swollengut Worm Eel, Neoconger tuberculatus (Castle 1965)

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Distribution

Manly, New South Wales.

Remarks

Adults of this genus have not yet been collected in the Indo-west Pacific.

Species Citation

Leptocephalus tuberculatus Castle 1965, Trans. Roy. Soc. N. Zeal., Zool. 7(7): 131, fig. 1(f-h). Type locality: Manly Beach, Sydney, New South Wales.

Author

Bray, D.J. 2018

Resources

Australian Faunal Directory

Swollengut Worm Eel, Neoconger tuberculatus (Castle 1965)

References


Castle, P.H.J. 1965. Moringuid leptocephali in Australasian waters. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Zoology 7(7): 125-133.

Smith, D.G. 1989. Family Moringuiidae, in Böhlke, E.B. (ed.) Volume One: Orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes. Volume Two: Leptocephali. Fishes of the western North Atlantic. Memoirs of the Sears Foundation of Marine Research Mem. 1 (part 9): v. 1:i-xvii + 1-655; 2:i-vii + 657-1055.

Smith, D.G. 1999. Families Halosauridae, Notacanthidae, Lipogenyidae, Anguillidae, Moringuidae, Chlopsidae, Myrocongridae. pp. 1625-1642 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 3 pp. 1397-2068.

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CAAB Code:37057004

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