Kaup's Cut-throat Eel, Synaphobranchus kaupii Johnson 1862
Other Names: Gray's Cutthroat, Kaup's Arrowtooth Eel, Long-nose Eel, Longnosed Eel, Northern Cutthroat Eel, Slatjaw Cutthroat Eel
Kaup's Cut-throat Eel, Synaphobranchus kaupii, from the Cape Verde Islands - USNM 405030. Source: Kimberly Wieber/ /Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Division of Fishes. License: CC BY Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike
Summary:
A dark purplish-grey cut-throat eel.
Cite this page as:
Bray, D.J. 2017, Synaphobranchus kaupii in Fishes of Australia, accessed 06 Dec 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/3299
Kaup's Cut-throat Eel, Synaphobranchus kaupii Johnson 1862
More Info
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Distribution |
Off central New South Wales, to the North West Shelf, Western Australia; also on the Lord Howe Rise and Norfolk Ridge in the Tasman Sea. Elsewhere the species widespread in all oceans except for the eastern Pacific Ocean, mostly in depths of 400-2000 m. |
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Feeding |
Feeds on fishes, cephalopods and crustaceans. |
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Species Citation |
Synaphobranchus kaupii Johnson 1862, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1862 (2) (2): 169. Type locality: Off Madeira, eastern Atlantic. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2017 |
Kaup's Cut-throat Eel, Synaphobranchus kaupii Johnson 1862
References
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