• Labichthys Gill, T.N. & Ryder, J.A. 1883. Diagnosis of new genera of nemichthyoid eels. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 6: 260-262 [261] [appeared first as name only in Gill, T.N. 1883. Diagnosis of new genera and species of deep-sea fish-like vertebrates. Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 6 (no. 380): 253-260].

  Type species:

   Labichthys carinatus Gill & Ryder, 1883 by subsequent designation, see Jordan, D.S. & Davis, B.M. 1891. A preliminary review of the apodal fishes or eels inhabiting the waters of America and Europe. Report of the United States Commission on Fish and Fisheries 16: 581-677 pls 73-80 [1888] [655].

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal.

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Macquarie Island Province (24)

General References

Karmovskaya, E. S. 1982. Systematics and some aspects of ecology of the family Nemichthyidae. Proceedings of the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology 118: 151-161 [In Russian, English summary] [154]

Paxton, J.R., Gates, J.E., Bray, D.J. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Nemichthyidae. pp. 284-286 in Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & Allen, G.R. Fishes. In, Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 35. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp. [285]

History of changes

• Avocettinops yanoi Mead, G.W. & Rubinoff, I. 1966. Avocettinops yanoi, a new nemichthyid eel from the southern Indian Ocean. Breviora. Museum of Comparative Zoology 241: 1-6 [1, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 44404, southern Indian Ocean [28°05'S, 64°58'E to 28°28'S, 65°04'E].

Generic Combinations

• Labichthys yanoi (Mead & Rubinoff, 1966). —
  Bertelsen, E., Nielsen, J.G. & Smith, D.G. 1989. Suborder Saccopharyngoidei. pp. 636-655 in Böhlke, E.B. (ed.). Orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes. Fishes of the Western North Atlantic. Memoir. Sears Foundation of Marine Research 1: 1-655 [451] (changed combination cited)

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Off TAS (40-43°S, 144-148°E); Tropical, temperate, southern Indian and apparently widespread in southern Ocean, at least Indian and south-west Pacific Ocean.

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Macquarie Island Province (24)

Ecological Descriptors

Bathypelagic, mesopelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

800-3800 m

General References

Paxton, J.R., Gates, J.E., Bray, D.J. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Nemichthyidae. pp. 284-286 in Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & Allen, G.R. Fishes. In, Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 35. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp. [285]

Smith, D.G. & Nielsen, J.G. 1989. Family Nemichthyidae pp. 441–459 in Böhlke, E.B. (ed.) Orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes. Fishes of the Western North Atlantic. Sears Found. Mar. Res., Yale Univ., Part 9. 1-6555 pp. [450]

Smith, D.G. & Stewart, A.L. 2015. Families Derichthyidae, Nemichthyidae, Congridae, Nettastomatidae, Serrivomeridae. pp. 259-290 in Roberts, C.D., Stewart, A.L. & Struthers, C.D. The Fishes of New Zealand. Wellington : Te Papa Press Vol. 2 pp. 1-576. [266]

Common Name References

Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Yano's Snipe Eel)

Yearsley, G.K., Last, P.R. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Standard names of Australian fishes. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper 9: 1-64 [20] (Yano's Snipe Eel)

History of changes