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Etymology: Protanguilla: Name from the Greek 'protos' meaning first, and Latin 'anguilla' for eel; referring to the early divergence of the genus among anguilliforms.; palau: Named for its type locality; noun in apposition (Ref. 87802).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Écologie

marin récifal; profondeur 35 - ? m (Ref. 87802). Tropical; 9°N - 6°N, 134°E - 135°E

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Western Pacific: Republic of Palau. Presently known from a western fringing reef of Ngemelis Island, in a reef cave at 35 m depth. As an elopomorph, it almost certainly has a leptocephalus larval form, and letptocephali (particularly those of anguilliforms) are known to have long planktonic durations (2-10 months). Accordingly, the authors believe that Protoanguilla probably has a considerably broader distribution than currently known, even though no leptocephali matching its unique meristic formula (fewer than 90 vertebrae, more than 170 dorsal fin and anal fin rays) have been identified in extensive worldwide larval fish collections. In any case, historically, the Protoanguilla lineage, estimated to have diverged ca 200Ma, must have been much more widely distributed, because the Palau-Kyushu Ridge formed only around 60-70 Ma (Ref. 87802).

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 17.6 cm TL (female)

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Gill opening terminates as ovoid tube with low, fringed collar; pseudobranch present; knob-like, toothed gill rakers present; premaxilla present, autogenous; symplectic autogenous; metapterygoid present; anterior end of vomer with small, ovoid, autogenous toothplate; body relatively short, total vertebrae 87 or fewer (79–87, mean ¼ 83.3); hypurals 3 and 4 not fused to each other; pterosphenoid not excluded from posterior margin of orbit (Ref. 87802).

Cave species (Ref. 87802).

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Johnson, G.D., H. Ida, J. Sakaue, T. Sado, T. Asahida and M. Miya, 2012. A 'living fossil' eel (Anguilliformes: Protanguillidae, fam. nov.) from an undersea cave in Palau. Proc. Royal Soc. B 279(1730):934-943. (Ref. 87802)

Statut dans la liste rouge de l'IUCN (Ref. 126983)

Données manquantes (DD) ; Date assessed: 21 November 2019

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Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

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Harmless

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Protanguilla palau Johnson, Ida & Sakaue, 2012