Dysommina

Dysommina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Family: Synaphobranchidae
Genus: Dysommina
Ginsburg, 1951
Species

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Dysommina is a genus of eels in the cutthroat eel family Synaphobranchidae. It currently contains the following species:

  • Dysommina proboscideus (E. H. M. Lea, 1913)
  • Dysommina rugosa Ginsburg, 1951

In 2005 there was discovered Eel City - an unusual community of Dysommina rugosa on the summit of Vailulu'u submarine volcano.

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Last modified on 22 March 2013, at 05:54