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
Nemichthyidae
Snipe eels are a family, Nemichthyidae, of eels that consists of nine species in three genera. They are pelagic fishes, found in every ocean, mostly at depths of but sometimes as deep as . Depending on the species, adults may reach in length, y ...
(snipe eels).''Labichthys yanoi'' at www.fishbase.org. It was described by
Giles Willis Mead
Giles may refer to:
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* Giles (given name), male given name (Latin: ''Aegidius'')
* Giles (surname), family name
* Saint Giles (650–710), 7th–8th-century Christian hermit saint
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and
Ira Rubinoff
Ira Rubinoff (born 1938) is an American marine biologist and was a former director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
Education
Ira Rubinoff attended Queens College, graduating in 1959, and went on to Harvard Universit ...
in 1966, originally under the genus '' Avocettinops''.Mead, G. W. and I. Rubinoff, 1966 (25 Feb.) ef. 9044''Avocettinops yanoi, a new nemichthyid eel from the southern Indian Ocean.'' Breviora No. 241: 1-6. It is a
marine
Marine is an adjective meaning of or pertaining to the sea or ocean.
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* ...
, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 List of islands of New Zealand, smaller islands. It is the ...
, in the southwestern
Pacific Ocean
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