Open AccessCONFIRMATION OF THE OCCURRENCE OF OPHICHTHUS CYLINDROIDEUS (RANZANI) (ANGULLIFORMES: OPHICHTHIDAE) IN THE COLOMBIAN CARIBBEAN
Author(s) -
Angélica Barrera-García,
Arturo Acero P.,
Carlos Polo-Silva,
Marcela Grijalba-Bendeck
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
boletin de investigaciones marinas y costeras/boletín de investigaciones marinas y costeras
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.177
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2590-4671
pISSN - 0122-9761
DOI - 10.25268/bimc.invemar.2008.37.2.351
Subject(s) - osteology , geography , zoology , archaeology , fishery , anatomy , biology
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.