Fishes from the Puerto Rico Plateau

18 Dennis Marine Fishes of the Puerto Rico Plateau December 2000
McCosker et al. (1989), (1: 658 mm TL holotype), Playa de Guayanes, Punta Yabucoa [ANSP 158885]; (1: 373 mm
TL paratype), 22 m, Crashboat Basin, Aguadilla [UF 18131]; (1: 628 mm TL), with holotype, Playa de
Guayanes, Punta Yabucoa [ANSP 158886]; (1: 813 mm TL), Playa Humacao [UPRM 3654].
Puerto Rico sand eel.
Callechelys guineensis (Osorio, 1894) 10
McCosker et al. (1989), (1: 601 mm TL, rotenone, 13 m, Crashboat Basin, Aguadilla [CAS 54469].
UPRM collection, (1), speared, sand, Crashboat Basin, Aguadilla [UPRM 3350].
shorttail snake eel.
Caralophia loxochila Böhlke, 1955
McCosker & Böhlke (1984), Puerto Rico.
McCosker et al. (1989), (3: 137-350 mm TL), sand, Crashboat Basin, Aguadilla [ANSP 136519]; (2: 155-456 mm TL),
Crashboat Basin, Aguadilla [ANSP 13877]; (2: 328-396 mm TL), Puerto Rico [LACM 6522-7].
UPRM collection, (4: 173-253 mm TL), rotenone, sand, 3 m, Firewood Bay, Culebra [UPRM 2408]; (1: 229 mm TL),
rotenone, sand with seagrass, 8 m, Crashboat Basin, Aguadilla [UPRM 2988].
slantlip eel.
Echiophis intertinctus (Richardson, 1848) 11
Ginsburg (1951a), as Mystriophis intertinctus, (1: 372 mm TL) St. Thomas [USNM 6956].
McCosker et al. (1989), (2: 508-770 mm TL), Puerto Rico [LACM 6522-23].
spotted spoon-nose eel.
Gordiichthys irretitus Jordan & Davis, 1891
McCosker & Böhlke (1984), (1: 391mm TL), fish trap, 200 m, Mayagüez [ANSP 138154].
McCosker et al. (1989), (1: 391 mm TL), fish trap, 100 m, W of Mayagüez [CAS 54472].
horsehair eel.
Gordiichthys randalli McCosker & Böhlke, 1984
McCosker & Böhlke (1984), (1: 537 mm TL holotype), 7.5 m, Crashboat Basin, Aguadilla [ANSP 151690]; (1: 662
mm TL paratype), 12 m, Crashboat Basin, Aguadilla [ANSP 151689]; (1: 598 mm TL paratype), 10.5 m,
Crashboat Basin, Aguadilla [USNM 263572]; (1: 540 mm TL paratype), 12 m, Crashboat Basin, Aguadilla
[BPBM 29361].
Randall's horsehair eel.
Ichthyapus ophioneus (Evermann & Marsh, 1900) 12
Evermann & Marsh (1900: 73), as Sphagebranchus ophioneus, (1: 286 mm TL holotype), 7 m, Mayagüez.
Kimmel (1975), as S. ophioneus, (1), rock outcrops, Punta Las Tunas.
McCosker et al. (1989), (1: 203 mm TL), Playa de Guayanés, Puerto Yabucoa [ANSP 115553]; (1: 302 mm TL),
Crashboat Basin, Aguadilla [ANSP 136521].
10 McCosker et al. (1989), synonymized C. perryae with C. guineensis.
11 McCosker (1977) transferred intertinctus to the genus Echiophis.
12 Böhlke & McCosker (1975) tranferred ophioneus to the genus Ichthyapus.