Description

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This species is distinguished by having the following characters: body with mid-greyish brown background colour, covered with small, discrete, ovoid light spots, especially over head, trunk and dorsal and pectoral fins; precaudal vertebrae 74, total vertebrae 147; preanal 2.2 in TL, eye 5.1 in head; vomerine teeth on posterior half of bone molariform (Ref. 87005).

Common Names

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Úhořovec kapala , Czech , Czechia

Mottled conger , English , Australia

Kirevangerjas , Estonian , Estonia

卡帕拉杂色康吉鳗 , Mandarin Chinese , China

卡帕拉雜色康吉鰻 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Anguilliformes

Family: Congridae

Genus: Ariosoma

Species: Ariosoma kapala (Castle, 1990)

Climate Zone

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Subtropical

Location

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Southwest Pacific: Australia.

Biology

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Life cycle and mating behavior

Habitat

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demersal