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GBIF·2405418speciesAnimalia33 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderAnguilliformes
  4. ›familyChlopsidae
  5. ›genusChilorhinus
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Broadsnout False Moray

Chilorhinus platyrhynchus (Norman, 1922)

Also calledHashihiroanago (jpn) · pamurénovec ploskorypý (ces) · Плосконосый эндеконгер (rus) · ハシヒロアナゴ (jpn) · 扁吻唇鼻擬鯙 (zho) · 扁吻唇鼻鰻 (zho) · 扁吻擬鯙 (zho) · 扁吻草鰻 (zho) · 草鰻 (zho)

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

discussion

Remarks. This is a rare species represented by a few specimens collected by bottom trawl from southwestern Taiwan and two catalog records (three specimens total) in the USNM collection collected by rotenone off southern Taiwan.

Annotated checklist of eels (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes) from Taiwan

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2405418.