''Dysomma longirostrum'' is an

eel Eels are ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes (), which consists of eight suborders, 19 families, 111 genera, and about 800 species. Eels undergo considerable development from the early larval stage to the eventual adult stage ...

in the family

Synaphobranchidae Cutthroat eels are a family, Synaphobranchidae, of eels, the only members of the suborder Synaphobranchoidei. They are found worldwide in temperate and tropical seas. Cutthroat eels range from in length. They are bottom-dwelling fish, found in ...

(cutthroat eels).''Dysomma longirostrum''
at www.fishbase.org. It was described by

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and

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in 2001.Chen, Y.-Y. and H.-K. Mok, 2001 ef. 25465''A new synaphobranchid eel, Dysomma longirostrum (Anguilliformes: Synaphobranchidae), from the northeastern coast of Taiwan.'' Zoological Studies v. 40 (no. 2): 79-83. It is a

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water-dwelling eel which is known from

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

, in the northwestern

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. It dwells at a depth range of 100–150 metres. Males can reach a maximum

total length Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies. These data are used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fisheries biology. Overall length * Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish ...

of 19.6 centimetres. The species epithet refers to the eel's long snout.

References

Synaphobranchidae Fish described in 2001 {{Anguilliformes-stub