Fifth confirmed record and North Atlantic range expansion of the rare pelagic bobtail snipe eel genus Neocyema (Cyematidae, Elopomorpha)
- 14 April 2015
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Marine Biodiversity Records
- Vol. 8
Abstract
A fifth confirmedNeocyema specimen, caught in the Denmark Strait off the coast of south-east Greenland, provides a North Atlantic range expansion for the genus and is compared to all four previous records. Due to taxonomic issues with both adults and larvae, the new specimen from waters near Greenland is tentatively referred to asNeocyema erythrosomaand represents the largest specimen ever recorded. Morphological and molecular data are included for future comparisons. Distributional and morphological differences exist between specimens, although the present rarity of these fishes precludes an evaluation of diversity withinNeocyema.Keywords
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