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Myroconger prolixus Castle & Béarez, 1995

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> Anguilliformes (Eels and morays) > Myrocongridae (Atlantic red eels)
Etymology: Myroconger: Greek, myros, -ou = male of morey eel + Latin, conger = conger (Ref. 45335)prolixus: From the Latin prolixus, "long bodied".

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecología

marino batidemersal; rango de profundidad 260 - 280 m (Ref. 26785). Deep-water

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Western Pacific: off New Caledonia, Kaiyo Maru Seamount.

Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 38.3 cm TL (female)

Short description Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría

Radios blandos dorsales (total) : 398; Radios blandos anales: 239; Vértebra: 147. very slender body, relatively long snout, very slender neurocranium, prominent and sharp teeth, especially those on intermaxillary and inner row of maxilla and dentary; precaudal vertebrae 71.

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

Unique female specimen, with ova, trawled at the Kaiyo Maru Seamount, off New Caledonia (Ref. 26785).

Life cycle and mating behavior Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva

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Castle, P.H.J. and P. Béarez, 1995. Two new species of Myroconger (Anguilliformes, Myrocongridae) from the Pacific Ocean. Cybium 19(3):211-222. (Ref. 26785)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)

  Data deficient (DD) ; Date assessed: 14 November 2019

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Pesquerías: sin interés
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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 11.5 - 16.2, mean 15.1 °C (based on 203 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5625   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00102 (0.00046 - 0.00225), b=3.06 (2.88 - 3.24), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).
Nivel trófico (Ref. 69278):  3.7   ±0.6 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low to moderate vulnerability (28 of 100).