Dysomma Alcock 1889

Dysomma Alcock, 1889 Dysomma Alcock, 1889:459 (type species. Dysomma bucephalus Alcock, 1889). Remarks. TogEthEr wIth thrEE nEw spEcIEs dEscrIbEd hErEIn, 16 spEcIEs In Dysomma arE rEcognIZEd. ThE TaIwanEsE rEcord of D. goslinei Is hErEIn dEscrIbEd as a nEw spEcIEs. It Is notablE that tEn spEcIEs currEntly occur In TaIwan, of whIch sEvEn wErE dEscrIbEd from TaIwan. Although somE of thEm arE only found In TaIwan, morE InvEstIgatIon In thE nEar watErs may rEsult In a broadEr dIstrIbutIon for Each. MorEovEr, thE spEcIEs prEvIously rEcordEd as Dysommina rugosa from thE wEstErn PacIfIc OcEan Is now dEscrIbEd as a nEw spEcIEs, Dysommina orientalis TIghE et al., 2018.
Published as part of Ho, Hsuan-Ching & Tighe, Kenneth A., 2018, Three new species of the cutthroat eel genus Dysomma, with comments on the variation of D. taiwanense (Anguilliformes: Synaphobranchidae) in Zootaxa 4454 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4454.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/1452565
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