Dysommina
Appearance
Dysommina | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Anguilliformes |
Family: | Synaphobranchidae |
Subfamily: | Ilyophinae |
Genus: | Dysommina Ginsburg, 1951 |
Species | |
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Dysommina is a genus of eels in the family Synaphobranchidae. It currently contains the following species:
- Dysommina proboscideus (E. H. M. Lea, 1913)
- Dysommina rugosa Ginsburg, 1951
- Dysommina orientalis Tighe et al., 2018
In 2005 there was discovered Eel City - an unusual community of Dysommina rugosa on the summit of Vailulu'u submarine volcano.
References
[edit]- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Dysommina". FishBase. June 2011 version.