Gavialiceps taiwanensis Chen & Weng 1967

* Gavialiceps taiwanensis (Chen & Weng, 1967) a*��ffi�� Chlopsis taiwanensis Chen & Weng, 1967: 81, fig. 61 (Type locality: Tungkang, southwestern Taiwan). Chen, 1969: 134; Shen, 1984 a: 114; Chen & Yu, 1986: 255; Shen et al., 1993: 115. Gavialiceps taiwanensis (Chen & Weng, 1967): Karmovskaya, 1994: 84; Smith in Randall & Lim, 2000: 586; Shao et al., 2008: 239; Ho et al., 2010: 25; Ho & Shao, 2011: 24, table 1; Lin et al., 2013: 167. Gavialiceps taeniola (not of Alcock, 1889): Shao et al., 2008: 239. Remarks. The assignment of this species to the Muraenesocidae is provisional. This is the most abundant eel species found in bycatch of midwater trawls in Taiwan.
Published as part of Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Smith, David G., Mccosker, John E., Hibino, Yusuke, Loh, Kar-Hoe, Tighe, Kenneth A. & Shao, Kwang-Tsao, 2015, Annotated checklist of eels (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes) from Taiwan, pp. 140-189 in Zootaxa 4060 (1) on pages 150-151, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4060.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/243651
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