Taxonomy of the deep-sea eel genus, Histiobranchus (Synaphobranchidae, Anguilliformes), with notes on the ecology of H. bathybius in the eastern North Atlantic

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1015-1037

  Karmovskaya, E S ^a   Merrett, N R ^b  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deep sea eel; Distribution; Ecology; Histiobranchus; NE Atlantic; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

DEEP-SEA ORGANISM; ECOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

HISTIOBRANCHUS AUSTRALIS; HISTIOBRANCHUS BATHYBIUS; HISTIOBRANCHUS BRUUNI;

EID: 0032211633     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jfbi.1998.0765     Document Type: Article

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