Simenchelys parasitica, Snubnosed eel

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Simenchelys parasitica Gill, 1879

Snubnosed eel
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Anguilliformes (Eels and morays) > Synaphobranchidae (Cutthroat eels) > Simenchelyinae
Etymology: Simenchelys: Greek, simo = flattening + Greek, enchelys, -yos = eel (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Gill.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; bathydemersal; depth range 100 - 3000 m (Ref. 117245), usually 500 - 1800 m (Ref. 58302). Deep-water; 4°C - 9°C (Ref. 26895); 45°N - 45°S, 110°E - 23°E

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Eastern Atlantic: France to Madeira and the Azores, one specimen near Cape Verde, also off South Africa. Western Atlantic: USA. Western Pacific: off Japan, near Wake Island, Australia (Ref. 7300) and off New Zealand.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?, range 45 - ? cm
Max length : 61.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 559)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Grey to greyish brown in color, darker on fin edges and along lateral line (Ref. 3973). Body with scales in grouped, right-angle basketweave pattern. Thick head, blunt, cylindrical. Small mouth, gape falling well short of the orbit; strongly plicate lips around the slit-like mouth; hyomandibula canted anteriorly. Broadly separate gill slits. Reduced cephalic lateralis system (Ref. 26895).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Found on the continental slope and upper abyssal depths. Feed on invertebrates (epibenthic copepods and amphipods) and fishes (Ref. 6726). Reported to be parasitic on fishes. Eggs are probably pelagic (Ref. 6726).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Sulak, K.J. and Y.N. Shcherbachev, 1997. Zoogeography and systematics of six deep-living genera of synaphobranchid eels, with a key to taxa and description of two new species of Ilyophis. Bull. Mar. Sci. 60(3):1158-1194. (Ref. 26895)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 04 February 2009

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Fisheries: of no interest
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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 2.4 - 9.5, mean 4.2 °C (based on 1993 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 1.0000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00145 (0.00057 - 0.00366), b=3.01 (2.79 - 3.23), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.7   ±0.54 se; based on food items.
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Assuming fecundity > 100).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Moderate vulnerability (44 of 100).
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 8.42 [2.49, 28.96] mg/100g; Iron = 0.359 [0.119, 0.939] mg/100g; Protein = 17.5 [15.3, 19.9] %; Omega3 = 0.334 [0.136, 0.888] g/100g; Selenium = 25.7 [7.6, 83.9] μg/100g; VitaminA = 4.94 [0.96, 24.96] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.28 [0.14, 0.55] mg/100g (wet weight);