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Common names: Anguille serpent, Atii, Lamnostome oriental
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
Abundance: common (usually seen) | Ref: Keith, P., E. Vigneux and G. Marquet, 2002
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Found in Tahiti (Ref. 12792). Known from Society Is. (Ref. 37816). Also Ref. 89972.
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Keith, P., E. Vigneux and G. Marquet, 2002
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Serpenton oriental, Tieso oriental, Oriental snake eel, ... more

Classification / Names Nomi Comuni | Sinonimi | Catalog of Fishes(Genere, Specie) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Anguilliformes (Eels and morays) > Ophichthidae (Snake eels) > Ophichthinae
Etymology: Lamnostoma: Greek, lamna, -es = a shark + Greek, stoma = mouth (Ref. 45335).
More on author: McClelland.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecologia

marino; acqua dolce; salmastro associati a barriera corallina; distribuzione batimetrica ? - 10 m (Ref. 86942). Tropical

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Indo-West Pacific: Somalia (Ref. 30573) and southern Africa to India and probably most other parts of the Indian Ocean. Found in New Guinea (Ref. 7050) and Tahiti (Ref. 12792). Record from the Mascarenes by Castle (1984, in distribution map, Ref. 7245) could not be verified; probably erroneous (Ref. 33390).

Size / Peso / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 36.0 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 3972); common length : 25.0 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 7245)

Short description Morfologia | Morfometria

Spine dorsali (totale): 0; Spine anali 0; Vertebre: 132 - 141. Dark above lateral line, lighter below with light spots (Ref. 3972). Elongate, more or less cylindrical, slightly compressed body, with a hard tail tip; sharply conical head; large mouth, reaching well behind eyes; teeth on jaws small, sharp, recurved; vomerine teeth larger; gill-openings a longitudinal slit beneath throat, with an extra fold of skin alongside; dorsal and anal fins very low; dorsal fin origin just behind gill-openings (Ref. 4832).

Found in estuaries and inshore areas of turbid waters (Ref. 30573). Occurs in rivers (Ref. 12792). Biology not known. Probably feeds on small sand-dwelling invertebrates. Caught mainly in (dol) nets and by hand. Marketed fresh.

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve

Main reference Upload your references | Bibliografia | Coordinatore : McCosker, John E. | Collaboratori

Castle, P.H.J., 1984. Ophichthidae. In W. Fischer and G. Bianchi (eds.) FAO species identification sheets for fishery purposes. Western Indian Ocean (Fishing Area 51). Volume 3. FAO, Rome. (Ref. 7245)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 04 August 2011

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Pesca: scarso interesse commerciale; esca: usually

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 25.6 - 29.3, mean 28.5 (based on 3607 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5312 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00089 (0.00039 - 0.00204), b=3.00 (2.80 - 3.20), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.7 ±0.6 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives

Resilienza (Ref. 120179): Alto, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione meno di 15 mesi (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low to moderate vulnerability (26 of 100).

Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.

Lamnostoma orientale (McClelland, 1844)