Grey cutthroat eel

Grey cutthroat eel

Taxobox
name = Grey cutthroat eel


image_caption = Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Anguilliformes
familia = Synaphobranchidae
genus = "Synaphobranchus"
species = "S. affinis"
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binomial = "Synaphobranchus affinis"
binomial_authority = Günther, 1877
The grey cutthroat eel, "Synaphobranchus affinis", is a cutthroat eel, the only species in the genus "Synaphobranchus". It is found around the world at depths below 1,000 m. Its length is up to 160 cm. The grey cutthroat eel is a moderately deep-bodied eel with a pointed snout, with both the dorsal and anal fins beginning about a third of the way from the front of the body. The gill apertures are short horizontal slits low on the body that join together beneath the throat. The mouth has many rows of small teeth, with larger teeth on the vomer on the roof of the mouth. Scale arrangement is similar to that of the basketwork eel.

The colour is a uniform grey to grey-brown with black edges to the fins.

Very little else is known.

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 0-00-216987-8


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