Monopterus luticolus, a new species of swamp eel from Cameroon (Teleostei: Synbranchidae)

Ralf Britz; Thomas M. Doherty-Bone; Marcel T. Kouete; Daniel Sykes; David J. Gower

Monopterus luticolus, a new species of swamp eel from Cameroon (Teleostei: Synbranchidae)

Ralf Britz, Thomas M. Doherty-Bone, Marcel T. Kouete, Daniel Sykes, David J. Gower

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Abstract

Monopterus luticolus, new species, is described from Cameroon. Most of the six known individuals were discovered in inundated soil while digging for caecilian amphibians. Monopterus luticolus differs from the two other nominal African synbranchid species in the number of vertebrae and details of its osteology. The spatial dissociation of ceratobranchial 1 from hypobranchial 1 and its close association with hypobranchial 2 and ceratobranchial 2 demonstrate that M. luticolus is a member of the ‘Amphipnous’ group

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	309-323
Journal	Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters
Volume	27
Issue number	4
Publication status	Published - Dec 2016

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Monopterus luticolus, a new species of swamp eel from Cameroon (Teleostei: Synbranchidae)

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