Biology:Facciolella castlei

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Short description: Species of fish

Facciolella castlei
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Nettastomatidae
Genus: Facciolella
Species:
F. castlei
Binomial name
Facciolella castlei
Parin & Karmovskaya, 1985

Facciolella castlei is an eel in the family Nettastomatidae (duckbill/witch eels).[1] It was described by Nikolai Vasilyevich Parin and Emma Stanislavovna Karmovskaya in 1985.[2] It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from Chile , in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. The type specimen was retrieved from a depth of 230 metres.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Facciolella castlei at www.fishbase.org.
  2. Parin, N. V. and E. S. Karmovskaya, 1985 [ref. 17259] Two new species of nettastomid eels (Nettastomatidae, Anguilliformes) from submarine mountains of the south-eastern Pacific. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal v. 64 (no. 10): 1524-1530.

Wikidata ☰ Q1848753 entry