Protanguilla

Protanguilla

(a) Holotype, female, 176 mm SL. (b–g) Paratype, juvenile, 65 mm SL; (c,d) head in lateral and ventral view; (e) gill opening; (f,g) stained body scales.^[1]
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)^[2]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Anguilliformes
Suborder:	Synaphobranchoidei
Family:	Protanguillidae G.D. Johnson, H. Ida & Miya, 2012
Genus:	Protanguilla G.D. Johnson, H. Ida & Miya, 2012
Species:	P. palau
Binomial name
*Protanguilla palau* G. D. Johnson, H. Ida & Sakaue, 2012

Protanguilla palau is a species of eel, the only species in the genus Protanguilla (first eel), which is in turn the only genus in its family, Protanguillidae. Its common name is Palauan primitive cave eel. Individuals were found swimming in March 2010 in a deep underwater cave in a fringing reef off the coast of Palau.^[1]

Protanguillidae is a sister group to all other eels.^[3] They are monophyletic, yet also strongly synapomorphic with all other eel species. Molecular analysis shows that all other eels are also monophyletic, showing that they may have broken off directly from the Protanguillidae. Being a significantly aged cave species, the Protanguilla palau has also earned the name “Palauan primitive cave eel.”^[4] For this reason it is known as a "living fossil".^[5]

Characteristics

The body is very small and slender, about 18 cm long.^[6]^[5] The eel has a second premaxilla and under 90 vertebrae, features previously found only in fossilised eels. Its full set of gill rakers in its branchial arches has never previously been found in an eel, but is common in bony fish.^[7] It is very different from all other living eels, and scientists estimate it must have diverged from the others around 200 million years ago, during the Mesozoic era. It thus has not only its own species, but also its own genus and family, as well, and has been referred to by scientists as a "living fossil".^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b Johnson, G. D.; Ida H.; Sakaue J.; Sado T.; Asahida T.; Miya M. (2012). "A 'living fossil' eel (Anguilliformes: Protanguillidae, fam nov) from an undersea cave in Palau". Proceedings of the Royal Society. (in press) (1730): 934–943. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.1289. PMC 3259923. PMID 21849321.
^ McCosker, J.; Tighe, K.; Smith, D. G. (2022). "Protanguilla palau". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T103707334A103708468. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T103707334A103708468.en. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
^ Springer, V. G. (2015). The Gill-Arch Musculature of Protanguilla, the Morphologically Most Primitive Eel (Teleostei: Anguilliformes), Compared with That of Other Putatively Primitive Extant Eels and Other Elopomorphs, 103(2), 595–620. doi: 10.1643/CI-14-152
^ "Palauan primitive cave eel (Protanguilla palau), a 'living fossil'". ocean.si.edu. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
^ ^a ^b ^c Rincon, Paul (17 August 2011). "New Pacific eel is a 'living fossil', scientists say". BBC News. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
^ 'Fossil eel' squirms into the record books, Agence France-Presse, 16 August 2011.
^ "Scientists discover the most primitive living eel". eurekalert.org. 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2011.

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True eels (Anguilliformes)

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Superclass: Osteichthyes
Class: Actinopterygii
Superorder: Elopomorpha

Families

Chlopsidae (False morays)
Synaphobranchoidei	Protanguillidae (Primitive cave eels) Synaphobranchidae (Cutthroat eels)
Anguilloidei	Moringuidae (Spaghetti eels) Anguillidae (Freshwater eels) Nemichthyidae (Snipe eels) Serrivomeridae (Sawtooth eels) Cyematidae (Bobtail eels) Monognathidae (Onejaws) Neocyematidae (Orange bobtail eels) Eurypharyngidae (Pelican eels) Saccopharyngidae (Gulper eels)
Muraenoidei	Heterenchelyidae (Mud eels) Myrocongridae (Thin eels) Muraenidae (Moray eels)
Congroidei	Colocongridae (Shorttail eels) Derichthyidae (Longneck eels) Ophichthidae (Snake eels) Muraenesocidae (Pike congers) Nettastomatidae (Duckbill eels) Congridae (Congers & garden eels)

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