Bruun's cutthroat eel

Taxobox
name = Bruun's cutthroat eel


image_caption = Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Anguilliformes
familia = Synaphobranchidae
genus = "Histiobranchus"
species = "H. bruuni"
binomial = "Histiobranchus bruuni"
binomial_authority = Castle, 1964 Bruun's cutthroat eel, "Histiobranchus bruuni", is a cutthroat eel of the genus "Histiobranchus", found around New Zealand at the bottom of the deep ocean basin at depths of between 4,000 and 5,000 m. Their length is between 40 and 60 cm. Bruun's cutthroat eel is very similar to the deepwater arrowtooth eel but is smaller and more slender, and lives at greater depth. Little else is known about this fish due to the extreme depth in which it lives.

References

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* Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, "Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand", (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 978-0-00-216987-5