''Myroconger gracilis'' 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
Myrocongridae
''Myroconger'' is the only genus of eels, the thin eels, in the family Myrocongridae. Very little is known about the group.
Until recently, only a single specimen from this family was known. This individual had been caught off Saint Helena in 18 ...
(thin eels).
[''Myroconger gracilis''](_blank)
at www.fishbase.org. It was described by
Peter Henry John Castle
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in 1991.
[Castle, P.H.J., 1991. First Indo-Pacific record of the eel family Myrocongridae, with the description of a new species of Myroconger. ''Copeia'' 1991(1):148–150.] It is a
marine
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, deep-water dwelling eel which is known from the
Kyushu–Palau Ridge in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. It dwells at a depth range of 320–640 m. Females are known to reach a maximum
standard length
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Overall length
* Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish m ...
of 47.7 cm.
The
species epithet ''gracilis'' refers to the slender body of the eel in comparison to ''
'' (red eel).
References
Eels
Fish described in 1991
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