Record of a snake eel, Ophichthus sangjuensis (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), collected from Osaka Bay, Japan
2020
Hibino, Y. (Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka (Japan)) | Kimura, Y.
A single specimen (515.5 mm of total length) of a snake eel, Ophichthus sangjuensis (Ji and Kim, 2011), collected from Osaka Bay, eastern Seto Inland Sea, Japan, represents the second Japanese record and easternmost record of the species. Although the number of mandibular pores, one of the diagnostic characters of the species has been known as five, the present specimen has six on the left side and five on the right side. We consider the condition is an intraspecific variation.
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