| Ariosoma sokotranum | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Congridae |
| Genus: | Ariosoma |
| Species: | A. sokotranum |
| Binomial name | |
| Ariosoma sokotranum Karmovskaya, 1991 | |
Ariosoma sokotranum is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by Emma Stanislavovna Karmovskaya. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from Sokotra Island (from which its species epithet is derived), in the western Indian Ocean.
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Ariosoma Sokotranum is a bathydemersal marine eel, usually found between 395-420 meters below the water's surface. Ariosoma Sokotranum was discovered in 1991 by Emma Stanislavovna Karmovskaya. She described it as a new species of conger eel (congridae). Arisoma Sokotranum can only be found in the western Indian Ocean. The Ariosoma has between 136 - 141 vertebrae with a dark edge along the unpaired fins and light-coloured pectoral fins, with the branchial chamber in the region of the operculum dark. Ariosoma Sokotranum's dorsal fin originates slightly anterior to the base of the pectorals.
References
- Tighe, K.; Smith, D.G.; McCosker, J. (2019). "Ariosoma sokotranum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T199407A2592153. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T199407A2592153.en. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
- ^ Ariosoma sokotranum at www.fishbase.org.
- Karmovskaya, E. S., 1991 The new species of conger eels (Congridae) from the western Indian Ocean. Voprosy Ikhtiologii v. 31 (no. 6): 891-897.
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| Ariosoma sokotranum | |
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