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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderAnguilliformes
  4. ›familyNemichthyidae
  5. ›genusNemichthys
Nemichthys scolopaceus
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Slender snipe eel

Nemichthys scolopaceus Richardson, 1848

Also calledAnguila (spa) · Anguila Hocicona (spa) · Anguille Bécasse (fra) · Ata oceanica (ron) · Avocette ruban (fra) · Langhalet sneppeål (dan) · Long Bec (fra) · Nitkodziobek (pol) · Nokka-ankerias (fin) · Pez Agazadicha (spa) · Shigiunagi (jpn) · Sneppeål (nor) · Sneppeål (dan) · Trådål (swe)

First described in: Richardson, J. (1848). Fishes. <em>In: A. Adams (ed.). The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Samarang; under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, during the years 1843-1846. Reeve & Benham, London.</em> Pp. 1-28, Pls. 1-10.

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

description

Slender Snipe Eel. To about 2 m (78.7 in) TL (Roberts et al. 2015). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Hatooka in Nakabo 2002) and Russian north-western Pacific (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to southern Chile (52 ° S) (Sielfeld and Vargas 1996), including Gulf of California (Charter in Moser 1996). Primarily mesopelagic and bathypelagic, sometimes over continental shelf; depth: surface to 4,337 m (14,225 ft) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002; max.: Charter in Moser 1996).

Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

description

seas, in the western Pacific south to New Zealand. Bathypelagic, 0 – 3656 m depth. Marine.

Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records

materials_examined

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from northwestern New Ireland by Karmovskaya (1982: 157).

Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records

materials_examined

Five individuals in all were taken at the following stations.

Reports on the results of dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, on the east coast of the United States, during the summer of 1880, by the U. S. coast survey steamer “ Blake, ” Commander J. R. Bartlett, U. S. N., commanding.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2403686.