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Synaphobranchidae (Cutthroat eels) > Simenchelyinae
Etymology: Simenchelys: Greek, simo = flattening + Greek, enchelys, -yos = eel (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Gill.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologie
marien bathydemersaal; diepte 100 - 3000 m (Ref. 117245), usually 500 - 1800 m (Ref. 58302). Deep-water; 4°C - 9°C (Ref. 26895); 45°N - 45°S, 110°E - 23°E
Eastern Atlantic: France to Madeira and the Azores, one specimen near Cape Verde, also off South Africa. Western Atlantic: USA. Western Pacific: off Japan, near Wake Island, Australia (Ref. 7300) and off New Zealand.
Lengte bij maturiteit / Grootte / Gewicht / Leeftijd
Maturity: Lm ?, range 45 - ? cm
Max length : 61.0 cm TL mannelijk / geslacht onbekend; (Ref. 559)
Grey to greyish brown in color, darker on fin edges and along lateral line (Ref. 3973). Body with scales in grouped, right-angle basketweave pattern. Thick head, blunt, cylindrical. Small mouth, gape falling well short of the orbit; strongly plicate lips around the slit-like mouth; hyomandibula canted anteriorly. Broadly separate gill slits. Reduced cephalic lateralis system (Ref. 26895).
Found on the continental slope and upper abyssal depths. Feed on invertebrates (epibenthic copepods and amphipods) and fishes (Ref. 6726). Reported to be parasitic on fishes. Eggs are probably pelagic (Ref. 6726).
Levenscyclus en paargedrag
Maturities | Voortplanting | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larven
Sulak, K.J. and Y.N. Shcherbachev, 1997. Zoogeography and systematics of six deep-living genera of synaphobranchid eels, with a key to taxa and description of two new species of Ilyophis. Bull. Mar. Sci. 60(3):1158-1194. (Ref. 26895)
Status op de Rode Lijst van het IUCN (Ref. 130435)
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