The First Records of Neocyema (Teleostei: Saccopharyngiformes) in the Western North Atlantic with Comments on Its Relationship to Leptocephalus holti Schmidt 1909

Shannon C. DeVaney; Karsten E. Hartel; Daphne E. Themelis

doi:10.1656/045.016.n308

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Shannon C. DeVaney,^1,2,* Karsten E. Hartel,³ Daphne E. Themelis⁴

¹1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, Natural History Museum,
²2Current Address - Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angel
³3Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
⁴4Department of Biology, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, NS, B3M 2J6, Canada.

^*Corresponding author - sdevaney@nhm.org.

Abstract

Two new specimens of the rare deep sea eel genus Neocyema were collected in the western North Atlantic in June 2006 and September 2008. Previously the genus was known only from the two type specimens, collected in the South Atlantic in 1971. External morphology and osteology indicate that the new specimens probably belong to the described species Neocyema erythrosoma. Their capture in the North Atlantic provides support for the hypothesis that Neocyema is the adult form of the enigmatic larva Leptocephalus holti.

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Shannon C. DeVaney, Karsten E. Hartel, and Daphne E. Themelis "The First Records of Neocyema (Teleostei: Saccopharyngiformes) in the Western North Atlantic with Comments on Its Relationship to Leptocephalus holti," Northeastern Naturalist 16(3), 409-414, (1 September 2009). https://doi.org/10.1656/045.016.n308

Published: 1 September 2009

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