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> Anguilliformes (Eels and morays) > Protanguillidae (Protoanguillids)
Etymology: Protanguilla:Name from the Greek 'protos' meaning first, and Latin 'anguilla' for eel; referring to the early divergence of the genus among anguilliforms; palau:Named for its type locality; noun in apposition (Ref. 87802).
Western Pacific: Republic of Palau. Presently known from a western fringing reef of Ngemelis Island, in a reef cave at 35 m depth. As an elopomorph, it almost certainly has a leptocephalus larval form, and letptocephali (particularly those of anguilliforms) are known to have long planktonic durations (2-10 months). Accordingly, the authors believe that Protoanguilla probably has a considerably broader distribution than currently known, even though no leptocephali matching its unique meristic formula (fewer than 90 vertebrae, more than 170 dorsal fin and anal fin rays) have been identified in extensive worldwide larval fish collections. In any case, historically, the Protoanguilla lineage, estimated to have diverged ca 200Ma, must have been much more widely distributed, because the Palau-Kyushu Ridge formed only around 60-70 Ma (Ref. 87802).
အရြယ္အစား / အေလးခ်ိန္ / အသက္အရြယ္
မိ်ဳးပြားရန္အရြယ္ေရာက္ျပီ: Lm? range ? - ? cm Max length : 17.6 cm TL (female)
Gill opening terminates as ovoid tube with low, fringed collar; pseudobranch present; knob-like, toothed gill rakers present; premaxilla present, autogenous; symplectic autogenous; metapterygoid present; anterior end of vomer with small, ovoid, autogenous toothplate; body relatively short, total vertebrae 87 or fewer (79–87, mean ¼ 83.3); hypurals 3 and 4 not fused to each other; pterosphenoid not excluded from posterior margin of orbit (Ref. 87802). Body shape (shape guide): eel-like.
Johnson, G.D., H. Ida, J. Sakaue, T. Sado, T. Asahida and M. Miya, 2012. A 'living fossil' eel (Anguilliformes: Protanguillidae, fam. nov.) from an undersea cave in Palau. Proc. Royal Soc. B 279(1730):934-943. (Ref. 87802)
စိုးရိမ္ဖြယ္အေျခအေနသို႔ေရာက္ရွိေန ေသာမ်ိဳးသုဥ္းရွားပါးေတာ့မည့္မ်ိဳးစိတ္မ်ား၏အဆင့္အတန္း (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Phylogenetic diversity အညွှန်းကိန်း (က်မ္းကိုးစာရင္း 82804): PD50 = 1.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00102 (0.00046 - 0.00225), b=3.06 (2.88 - 3.24), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).
အစာရရွိမႈကြင္းဆက္နွင့္ အစာစားေသာအေလ့အက်င့္ (က်မ္းကိုးစာရင္း 69278): 3.5 ±0.6 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
ငါးဖမ်းခြင်း အားနည်းချက် (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100). 🛈
