Confirmación de la presencia de Ophichthus cylindroideus (Ranzani) (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) en el Caribe colombiano



Document title: Confirmación de la presencia de Ophichthus cylindroideus (Ranzani) (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) en el Caribe colombiano
Journal: Boletín de investigaciones marinas y costeras
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000327062
ISSN: 0122-9761
Authors: 1
2
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3
Institutions: 1Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, La Paz, Baja California Sur. México
2Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Santa Marta, Magdalena. Colombia
3Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Santa Marta, Magdalena. Colombia
Year:
Season: Jul-Dic
Volumen: 37
Number: 2
Pages: 213-219
Country: Colombia
Language: Español
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Analítico, descriptivo
English abstract Two specimens, 565 and 715 mm total length (TL), of the dusky snake eel, Ophichthus cylindroideus, collected southwest of Santa Marta, Colombian Caribbean, were examined. This species was not reported by Acero and Garzón-Ferreira (1995), then it is was not listed in the Colombian marine fishes data bases. However, McCosker et al. (1989) did examine one specimen (USNM 94755, 622 mm TL) from Puerto Colombia. External morphological and morphometric data are compared, as well as some osteology features
Disciplines: Biología
Keyword: Anatomía e histología,
Ecología,
Peces,
Morena,
Ophichthus cylindroideus,
Morfologia externa,
Morfometría,
Osteología,
Caribe colombiano
Keyword: Biology,
Anatomy and histology,
Ecology,
Fish,
Moray eel,
Ophichthus cylindroideus,
External morphology,
Morphometrics,
Osteology,
Colombian Caribbean
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