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Species in the genus Gavialiceps: [ 5 ] records

arabicus, Leptocephalus D'Ancona [U.] 1928:51, Pl. 3 (figs. 9-9a) [Memoria, Reale Comitato Talassografico Italiano No. 146; ref. 15917] Gulf of Aden, near the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, 12°05'N, 44°47'E, depth 582 meters. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. •Valid as Leptocephalus arabicus D'Ancona 1928 -- (Castle 1975:23 [ref. 25984]). •Uncertain identity -- (Dor 1984:37 [ref. 29757], Goren & Dor 1994:9 [ref. 25356]). •Valid as Gavialiceps arabicus (D'Ancona 1928) -- (Karmovskaya 1993:742 [ref. 22018], Adam et al. 1998:1 [ref. 23610], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S96 [ref. 27377], Lin & Ho 2018:225 [ref. 36047]). Current status: Valid as Gavialiceps arabicus (D'Ancona 1928). Congridae: Congrinae. Distribution: Western Indian Ocean. Habitat: marine.

bertelseni, Gavialiceps Karmovskaya [E. S.] 1993:750 [85] [Voprosy Ikhtiologii v. 33 (no. 6); ref. 22018] Southwestern Indian Ocean, off western Madagascar, 21°26'S, 43°01'E, depth 810-1200 meters. Holotype: MNHN 1979-0057. Paratypes: MNHN 1979-0058 (2), 1979-0059 (1); ZMUC P312688 (1). Type catalog: Fricke et al. 2018:47 [ref. 35805]. On p. 85 of English translation. •Valid as Gavialiceps bertelseni Karmovskaya 1993 -- (Fricke et al. 2018:47 [ref. 35805], Lin & Ho 2018:225 [ref. 36047]). Current status: Valid as Gavialiceps bertelseni Karmovskaya 1993. Congridae: Congrinae. Distribution: Southwestern Indian Ocean: off western and southwestern Madagascar. Habitat: marine.

javanicus, Gavialiceps Karmovskaya [E. S.] 1993:750 [86] [Voprosy Ikhtiologii v. 33 (no. 6); ref. 22018] Southeastern Indian Ocean, 8°30'S, 111°55'E, depth 560-600 meters. Holotype: ZMMU P-15728. Paratypes: AMS I.22809-016 (2); BMNH 1984.1.1.6.7 (2), ZMMU P-15728 (1). Type catalog: Vasil'eva et al. 2001:17 [ref. 25714]. On p. 86 of English translation. •Valid as Gavialiceps javanicus Karmovskaya 1993 -- (Smith 1999:1686 [ref. 24661], Hoese & Gates 2006:293 [ref. 28997] in Congridae). Current status: Valid as Gavialiceps javanicus Karmovskaya 1993. Congridae: Congrinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific. Habitat: marine.

taeniola, Gavialiceps Alcock [A. W.] (ex Wood-Mason) 1889:460 [36] [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 6) v. 4 (no. 24); ref. 20525] Arakan coast, Myanmar, 19°35'N, 92°24'E, depth 272 fathoms; Andaman Sea southeast by south of Ross Island. Syntypes: BMNH 1892.6.17.8 (1) Bay of Bengal, 1892.6.17.9 [ex ZSI F11311] (1) Bay of Bengal; ZSI 11312-3 (2, poor condition), 12467 (1, not found). Type catalog: Menon & Rama-Rao 1975:36 [ref. 22148], Menon and Rama-Rao 1970:377 [ref. 27516], Menon & Rama Rao 1971:343 [ref. 31198], Talwar 1977:636 [ref. 26599]. On p. 36 of separate. Figured in Alcock 1900: Pl. 34 (fig. 2) [ref. 20536] and in Alcock 1905: Pl. 36 (fig. 1) [ref. 20537] as Saurenchelys taeniola. •Valid as Gavialiceps taeniola Alcock 1889 -- (Machida in Masuda et al. 1984:29 [ref. 6441], Machida in Okamura & Kitajima 1984:99, 321 [ref. 8057], Smith 1989:559 [ref. 13285], Karmovskaya 1993 [ref. 22018], Nakabo 2000:235 [ref. 25086], Shinohara et al. 2001:293 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:235 [ref. 26001], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S96 [ref. 27377], Shinohara et al. 2005:400 [ref. 28370], Shao et al. 2008:239 [ref. 29952], Zhang et al. 2010:300 [ref. 31511], Psomadakis et al. 2015:150 [ref. 34104], Lin & Ho 2018:225 [ref. 36047], Psomadakis et al. 2020:284 [ref. 37272]). Current status: Valid as Gavialiceps taeniola Alcock 1889. Congridae: Congrinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific. Habitat: marine.

taiwanensis, Chlopsis Chen [J. T. F.] & Weng [H. T. C.] 1967:81, Fig. 61 [Biological Bulletin Tunghai University Ichthyology Series Number 6 No. 6 (art. 32); ref. 7952] Tungkang, southwestern Taiwan. Lectotype: NMMBP 1405 [ex THUP 26781]. Paralectotypes: NMMBP 1360 and 1410 [ex THUP 2784] (now 27). Type catalog: Ho et al. 2010:25 [ref. 31218], Ho & Shao 2011:24 [ref. 31432]. Most of the description and the figure is based on a 564-mm specimen in THUP 2671 [now NMMBP 1405]. •Synonym of Gavialiceps taeniola Alcock 1889 -- (Zhang et al. 2010:300 [ref. 31511]). •Valid as Gavialiceps taiwanensis (Chen & Weng 1967) -- (Karmovskaya 1993:73 [ref. 22018], Smith in Randall & Lim 2000:586 [ref. 25122], Ho et al. 2010:25 [ref. 31218], Ho & Shao 2011:24 [ref. 31432], Ho et al. 2015:8 [ref. 34116], Ho et al. 2015:150 [ref. 34130], Lin & Ho 2018:217 [ref. 36047]). Current status: Valid as Gavialiceps taiwanensis (Chen & Weng 1967). Congridae: Congrinae. Distribution: Western Pacific. Habitat: marine.