Ariosoma sokotranum is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).Ariosoma sokotranum at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Emma Stanislavovna Karmovskaya.Karmovskaya, E. S., 1991 [ref. 19225] The new species of conger eels (Congridae) from the western Indian Ocean. Voprosy Ikhtiologii v. 31 (no. 6): 891-897. 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.
Info 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.
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