WoRMS taxon details
Anguilla megastoma Kaup, 1856
271707 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:271707)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Kaup, J. J. (1856). Catalogue of apodal fish in the collection of the British Museum. <em>London.</em> 1-163, Pls. 1-19., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12189820 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Anguilla megastoma Kaup, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=271707 on 2026-07-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Kaup, J. J. (1856). Catalogue of apodal fish in the collection of the British Museum. <em>London.</em> 1-163, Pls. 1-19., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12189820 [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Anguilla megastoma)
To FishBase
To GenBank (40136 nucleotides; 21 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Anguilla megastoma USNM 390604 photograph head lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Anguilla megastoma USNM 390604 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Anguilla megastoma)
To FishBase
To GenBank (40136 nucleotides; 21 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Anguilla megastoma USNM 390604 photograph head lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Anguilla megastoma USNM 390604 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
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